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The Wonderful Adventure of Nils
by Lagerlof, Selma and H.Baumhauer(Illustrator)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670586757
- ISBN 13
- 9780670586752
- Seller
-
Albany, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 1967. First Edition Thus/Eighth Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. In bright blue cloth with silver type to spine and blue tinted top page ends. Bookplate to ffep and short gift inscription to page opposite title, otherwise clean with tight binding and 200 illustrations. Jacket is price-clipped with some edgewear and a few nicks/very short tears to top corners and head of spine and adjacent front panel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB006795SL
- Title
- The Wonderful Adventure of Nils
- Author
- Lagerlof, Selma and H.Baumhauer(Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition Thus/Eighth Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670586757
- ISBN 13
- 9780670586752
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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Albany, California
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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