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THE GRATEFUL SPARROW.
by THIRKELL, Angela. Translated from German by Thirkell. Illustrated by Ludwig Richter.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Hamilton, (1947).. SECOND EDITION circa 1947, dated from adverts on the lower panel of the dustwrapper, first published in 1935. 4to, 250 x 185 mm, 10 x 7¼ inches, red backed colour illustrated boards, silver lettered spine, 87 pages. Coloured frontispiece and 23 full page attractive coloured illustrations by Ludwig Richter. These are in archaic style and partially colour printed to imitate handcolouring. 5 fairy tales not translated into English before 1935. No inscriptions, near Fine in very good DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, very slightly chipped at head and tail of spine, a couple of small closed edge tears, white spine slightly darkened, a few slight marks to upper and lower panels). The first edition of 1935 was bound in red cloth gilt with a mounted colour plate on the upper cover. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43003
- Title
- THE GRATEFUL SPARROW.
- Author
- THIRKELL, Angela. Translated from German by Thirkell. Illustrated by Ludwig Richter.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Hamilton, (1947).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- SHORT STORIES German Ludwig Richter children's fairy tales
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
We have been established booksellers for 42 years. We are a postal business only (strictly no callers). We are long-standing members of the P.B.F.A. the largest trade association for antiquarian booksellers in the UK. We wrap all our parcels in new materials and all our books are insured at our expense. Books may be returned if wrongly described, all costs will be met by us. ****PLEASE NOTE: POSTAGE WILL BE CHARGED AT COST, MEANING THAT POSTAGE WILL BE REDUCED ON PARCELS WEIGHING UNDER 1 KILO, AND IT WILL BE INCREASED ON MOST PARCELS WEIGHING MORE THAN 1 KILO****
About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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