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Chestnut Squirrel
by Commager, Henry Steele / Weil, Lisl [Illus.]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Lacking DJ
- Seller
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Madison, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Printed at The Riverside Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin quarto. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 122 pages. Very Good+. Lacking dust jacket. Illustrated by Lisl Weil. Yellow cloth on board. Green lettering and illustration on front board, with green lettering on spine. Binding tight and square. Case very lightly soiled with bottom edges of both lower tips rubbed through (no bumping). Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else clean and unmarked throughout. Some pages age toned. Upper corners dog-eared on pages 87/88 and 89/90. This extremely rare children's book, printed at The Riverside Press, was written by renowned American historian Henry Steele Commager, who helped define modern liberalism in the United States with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, and illustrated by Lisl Weil, an Austrian-American graphic artist associated with the Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie.
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- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000046
- Title
- Chestnut Squirrel
- Author
- Commager, Henry Steele / Weil, Lisl [Illus.]
- Illustrator
- Weil, Lisl
- Format/Binding
- Yellow cloth on board
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Lacking DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1952
- Pages
- 122
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Picture; Collectables;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
All listed items are physically in our possession and will normally ship within 48 hours, securely packaged to prevent damage in transit. Within the U.S., we ship USPS Media Mail with insurance against loss or damage. Tracking number provided. Orders with destinations outside the U.S., expedited shipments, oversized/heavy items or sets will require an update of shipping charges before the sale is completed. All items are returnable within 72 hours of receipt with prior notification, if found to be not as described. Safe return shipment is the client's responsibility.
About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
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About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights Bookstore opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in 2008. We are a "mom & pop" business, and we live in the same building. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. We offer a modest, but diverse, selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian items, as well as select higher quality new books. We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand. And consider visiting us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District, and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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