Through the Woods. The English Woodland, April to April. With 73 Engravings on Wood
by Bates, H. E
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Agnes Miller Parker. Quarto. [142] pages. Hardcover with a brown and white pictorial dust jacket. The jacket is worn and has several edge tears and some scuffing. The jacket is toned and is soiled from handling, and the jacket spine is especially toned. The rear panel of the jacket has several abrasions and a hole in the center. The book is sound with secure inner hinges. Endpapers are foxed. The rest of the text is a bit toned but generally clean. Illustrated with woodcuts by Agnes Miller Parker.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047906
- Title
- Through the Woods. The English Woodland, April to April. With 73 Engravings on Wood
- Author
- Bates, H. E
- Illustrator
- Agnes Miller Parker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 2.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 1936; H. E. Bates; Agnes Miller Parker; Outdoors; Nature; the Woods; Gardens; Gardener; Trees; Natural History.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History; Art;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....