Russian Wonder Tales with a Foreword on the Russian Skazki
by Wheeler, Post
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
North Tonawanda, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Century Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1912. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Pictorial tan cloth with arts & crafts style motifs to spine and front. Light edgewear, bumping and soil. Slightly shaken binding is cracked near center. Clean text. Interior lightly toned, with periodic minor soil from handling. Small chip in upper margin of one page. All twelve color plates intact. Former owner bookplate to rear pastedown. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 323 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10530
- Title
- Russian Wonder Tales with a Foreword on the Russian Skazki
- Author
- Wheeler, Post
- Illustrator
- Ivan Bilibin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus; First Printing
- Publisher
- The Century Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1912
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Old Editions Inc.
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North Tonawanda, New York
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- Cracked
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- Shaken
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- Good+
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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