![]() Book-Plate Label, generally affixed to the front pastedown, identifying a book’s owner.Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book. ![]() “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound. Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Scarce, especially in this excellent condition. Cotsen 3445.īook fine, original unrestored dust jacket very nearly fine with light toning and light edge-wear, mostly at spine ends. Nevertheless, as with so many vintage children’s books, it is difficult to find in a pristine dust wrapper” (Smiley 30). It was published in 1942, before the war impacted book production. If George stopped eating, Forester stopped talking mid-sentence” (Smiley, 32). Forester first told the stories about Harold Heavyside Brown and his pet dragons-the first of whom is named, naturally enough, Horatio-in order to entice youngest son to abandon a “hunger strike” during his mother’s absence: Forester recounted the stories at dinnertime, “but would only tell them if George would eat. A most attractive copy.īest-known for his Horatio Hornblower naval adventures, Forester also wrote two children’s books: the non-fiction The Barbary Pirates (1953) and this delightful fantasy, “sought-after by both children’s book collectors and Forester enthusiasts” (Smiley 30). Octavo, original green cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket.įirst edition of Forester’s first children’s book, with illustrations by Robert Lawson. FORESTER’S POO-POO AND THE DRAGONS, A BEAUTIFUL FIRST EDITIONįORESTER, C.S. “IT ALL STARTED BECAUSE THE BOY WAS MOPING FOR HIS MOTHER”: C.S.
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