The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse: Sleepy-Time Tales (in original dust jacket)
by Bailey, Arthur Scott
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/near fine
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1918. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Hardcover in orange cloth decorated in dark blue. Three-color ilustrated endpapers. 128 pp. Illustrated with 2-color drawings by Diane Peterson. Copyright page bears the 1918 date but this edition circa 1929 with "Cuffy Bear's Holidays" listed last on rear jacket flap. A tight, fine example. In the original color illustrated dust jacket, bright, with shallow chipping at the spine extremities. A very nice collectors copy indeed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E11558
- Title
- The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse: Sleepy-Time Tales (in original dust jacket)
- Author
- Bailey, Arthur Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- children, juvenile, vintage, bedtime stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- Chipping
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- Fine
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