Broadside Sheet printed on one side, typically for public display, usually larger than folio size (a folio being a broadside-size sheet printed on both sides and folded once, to make four pages).

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.Only minor restoration to unusually nice box. Thus, it is appropriate to call all early Volland copies in VHC #2 bindings “early printings.” Hall, 129.

According to Hall, “because by 1928, Volland had abandoned the regular use of its ‘edition’ designations, one cannot assume that these Volland books of the late 1920s and early 1930s were first editions just because they happen to be unstated” (Hall, 69). A first edition of this work cannot be differentiated from other early Volland printings, as all copies published between 19 were identical internally and were bound in the same VHC #2 format. The tale ends with characters transforming into royalty and living happily ever after” (Hall). They meet the mean-spirited Snarlyboodle a gentle Giant and the Boliver, whose mouth is in his pocket. The doll siblings enjoyed a long series of adventures, including this “make-believe mystery, set in the Deep Deep Woods, in which the Raggedys are sent by King Growch to complete several tasks. A lovely copy in original gift box.Īfter his daughter fell ill in 1915, cartoonist Johnny Gruelle and his family began making copies of a rag doll he had designed for the sick child and, in 1918, Gruelle’s book of Raggedy Ann Stories saw print, with Ann’s brother Andy making his bow in his own title two years later. Octavo, original half black cloth, original pictorial black paper boards, illustrated endpapers, original matching gift box.Įarly printing of this richly illustrated Raggedy Ann classic, featuring the mean-spirited Snarlyboodle. Joliet, New York, Chicago and Boston: P.F. “TAKE THE MAGICAL LUCKY PENNY, RAGGEDY ANN”

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