New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. Fair. 1913. Hardcover. Color Plates; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 126 pages; 1913 Thomas Y. Crowell. HC Ex-library copy in heavy pictorial cloth. Cloth frayed at spine ends and rubbed through at corners. Binding sound but shaken. Here and there a page has a short closed edge tear; a few pages with a chip torn away from the front edge. Occasional handling soil to pages. Color plate illustrations appear complete. Worn ex-lib copy but serviceable as an original edition reading copy. Fair only .

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Seller: DogStar Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 48719
Title: The White Duckling and Other Stories
Author: Dole, Nathan Haskell (Trans)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1913
Bookseller catalogs: Children''s Books; Fairy and Folk Tales;

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DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.

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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....
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
Shaken: A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.