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The Touchstone: A Fable
by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0688800513
- ISBN 13
- 9780688800512
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Greenwillow Books , 1976 Greenwillow Books, New York. 1976. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Signed by the Illustrator on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; dust soiling to head and tail around edges of DJ; light shelfwear to board edges. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.95); chipping and missing small pieces at head and tail; suntanned spine; light soiling to panels. Blue paper over boards with blue cloth overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering. Gray endpapers. 47 pp 8vo. Beautifully illustrated fable. An elder son goes in search of the touchstone of truth that is to win him a beautiful princess and a kingdom. He collects many false ones before the finds the true one. He goes home only find his brother has married the princess. In his sorrow the touchstone reveals them to be shallow and false and he sees that happiness and self-fulfillment lie in truth and understanding and not in princesses and kingdoms. A clean very presentable cop in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012926
- Title
- The Touchstone: A Fable
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Illustrator
- Uri Shulevitz (SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0688800513
- ISBN 13
- 9780688800512
- Publisher
- Greenwillow Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- fables, princesses, kingdoms, touchstones, Robert Louis Stevenson, literature, fable form, lessons learned, touchstone of truth,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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