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THE JACKIE-JACKDAW BOOK.
by ANDERSON, Anne.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, (1914).. FIRST EDITION (1914), small 4to, 235 x 175 mm, 9¼ x 6¾ inches, buff cloth with pretty colour plate to upper cover, orange border and lettering. Enchanting coloured frontispiece of 3 children watching baby in his cradle. At top of frontispiece is a small coloured illustration of jackdaw feeding her babies in the nest. Black and white title page with illustration of baby in birds' nest. 11 other delightful colour plates about a baby boy who becomes a mischievous toddler, each with a small coloured picture at the top chronicling the life of the baby jackdaws. All coloured plates face text with vignettes of the baby jackdaws. Covers slightly dusty, spine slightly darkened, onlaid plate faintly spotted, minute graze to background of 1 colour plates and facing black and white, caused by adhesion (see image 5 ), 10 mm (½") closed tear to 2 margins, repaired. Very good clean tight copy. On the reprints Nelson's imprint has "Limited". 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 #
- 46858
- Title
- THE JACKIE-JACKDAW BOOK.
- Author
- ANDERSON, Anne.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, (1914).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- children's colour plates Anne Anderson jackdaws babies
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
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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.
Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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