Alcester Osler Press 2008 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 236 p.

ISBN10: 1443770841, ISBN13: 9781443770842, [publisher: Osler Pr] Softcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

Osler Press 11/21/2008 Paperback or Softback New in New jacket The Story of a Puppet-Or, the Adventures of Pinocchio (Paperback or Softback)

ISBN10: 1443770841, ISBN13: 9781443770842, [publisher: Osler Pr] Softcover 236 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.54 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

Alcester Osler Press 2008 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 236 p.

Osler Pr 2008 Softcover New 236 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.54 inches.

ISBN10: 1443770841, ISBN13: 9781443770842, [publisher: Osler Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - There is really too much noise and nothing can be heard. From the tables in the large dining saloon of the Prinz Regent Luitpold the medley of sounds comes as from a telephone, with alternate tulness and intervals of quiet, and in scattered masses, like cloud rising and subsiding before a whirlwind. Every table serves as a nucleus for its own nebula, and the fringes get mixed with that next to it. English, French, Italian float in the air, intermingle, allowing for an instant some polite predominance to one or the other, but promptly breaking out again all together, each having the effect of endeavouring to drown the opposing sounds, and reproducing that telephonic babel which rendered conversation so completely. indistinguishable. My companion had to raise his voice he was a French lieutenant de vaisseau, and the commander of the submarine . . . .
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2008]
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[publisher: Fisher Unwin, London] Hardcover First Edition Small 8vo. 1892. 1st ed. of the text with all first issue points except that the frontis. is page 6 as opposed to page 3.Text clean and tight. Green buckram gilt with top edge gilt. Corners slightly bumped and spine gilt slightly dulled. Top and tail of spine rolled but not snagged.Blind W.H. Smith stamp on f.e.p. It would appear that W.H. Smith replaced the fragile publishers' patterned cloth with a more robust buckram gilt on sturdy bevelled boards for the Children's Library Series.Images available on request.
[Ditchingham, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1892]

T Fisher Unwin, Date: 1892. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1892. 1st English Edition. 232 pages. No dust jacket. Patterned cream cloth. From 'The Children's Library' series. Translated from Italian by M A Murray. Illustrated in b&w by C Mazzanti. Decorative textblock edges. Pen inscription to front endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout with heavier foxing to front endpapers. Heavy thumb-marking present throughout with notable staining to several pages. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Binding has weakened but remains intact. Rear endpaper missing. Tissue guard tanned. Front free endpaper loosening but attached. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Prominent split to upper front joint and considerable fraying and notable loss to cloth at spine ends. Brown spotting to boards. The spine is notably tanned. The book has a marked forward lean. 1892. T Fisher Unwin [GB]

New York: Cassell Publishing Co, Date: 1892. First American edition. Near Fine. Published simultaneously with the British Unwin edition, using the same sheets, but with a canceled title page. Part of the Children's Library Series. Original blue floral-decorated white cloth, recased with a slight loss to the cloth at the base of the spine; internally in excellent condition. Presenting Near Fine overall. Only one other copy of this Cassell imprint is currently available (the VG+ Bradley Martin copy for $9500) and only one appears in the recent auction record, Christies 2005; the American issue is decidedly scarce. Originally appearing in an Italian children's magazine in 1881, La Storia di un Burattino was more than an amusing, yet dark, tale for Italian children. Written by the political activist, Carlo Collodi, the story of Pinocchio was meant to aide in the reunification of Italy after the Napoleonic Wars had splintered the Italian states and devastated any sense of national identity. With the struggle to rebuild the Italian nation at hand, Collodi, worked to translate and create educational children's literature to create a vision of unification for the people. His story of Pinocchio was quite unlike the sanitized Disney version that most children grew up watching. The original story depicts an unsympathetic "rogue" in the carpenter, Geppetto, who defied his father's wishes, eschewed education, and fell easily into temptation by the fox and the cat. And, spoiler alert, ...

New York: Cassell Publishing Co, Date: 1892. First American edition. Near Fine. Published simultaneously with the British Unwin edition, using the same sheets, but with a canceled title page. Part of the Children's Library Series. Original blue floral-decorated white cloth, recased with a slight loss to the cloth at the base of the spine; internally in excellent condition. Presenting Near Fine overall. Only one other copy of this Cassell imprint is currently available (the VG+ Bradley Martin copy for $9500) and only one appears in the recent auction record, Christies 2005; the American issue is decidedly scarce. Originally appearing in an Italian children's magazine in 1881, La Storia di un Burattino was more than an amusing, yet dark, tale for Italian children. Written by the political activist, Carlo Collodi, the story of Pinocchio was meant to aide in the reunification of Italy after the Napoleonic Wars had splintered the Italian states and devastated any sense of national identity. With the struggle to rebuild the Italian nation at hand, Collodi, worked to translate and create educational children's literature to create a vision of unification for the people. His story of Pinocchio was quite unlike the sanitized Disney version that most children grew up watching. The original story depicts an unsympathetic "rogue" in the carpenter, Geppetto, who defied his father's wishes, eschewed education, and fell easily into temptation by the fox and the cat. And, spoiler alert, ...