- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 3922
- Format: Hardcover.
- Edition: First Edition Thus/First State
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: David McKay
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1919
Book Description
New York: David McKay, 1919. First Edition Thus/First State. Hardcover.. Very minor shelf/edge wear, discrete owner signature on ffep, hint of toning at textblock edges, else tight, bright and unmarred. Beige cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, blue ink lettering and decorative elements, color pictorial onlay, pictorial endpages, frontispiece, teg. Small 4to. 342pp. Illus. (color plates). The classic story richly illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. First state (see, Nudleman, A53.1). A handsome copy.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
TEG : Top Edge Gilt
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
first state : used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some part of the binding or correction of the text which has been made in later versions of the first edition print run.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
