Description
Up For Sale Today is
Silver and Gold
by
Enid Blyton
Illustrated by Ethel Everett
Hardcover. 4to. Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, New York. No date (1928). 128 pages. Illustrated with 8 glossy color pictorial plates and color pictorial lining sheets.
Bound in green cloth boards with titles present to the spine and color pastedown present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
A copy of this "delightful book of verse for children all about the everyday things that make up the life of a child - pleasantly homely or quaintly fanciful" (The Bookman, p. 135), as well as an early work from the prolific author who later became famous for her classic adventure novels.
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Book formats and corresponding sizes | ||||||
Name | Abbreviations | Leaves | Pages | Approximate cover size (width × height) | ||
inches | cm | |||||
folio | 2º or fo | 2 | 4 | 12 × 19 | 30.5 × 48 | |
quarto | 4º or 4to | 4 | 8 | 9½ × 12 | 24 × 30.5 | |
octavo | 8º or 8vo | 8 | 16 | 6 × 9 | 15 × 23 | |
duodecimo or twelvemo | 12º or 12mo | 12 | 24 | 5 × 7⅜ | 12.5 × 19 | |
sextodecimo or sixteenmo | 16º or 16mo | 16 | 32 | 4 × 6¾ | 10 × 17 | |
octodecimo or eighteenmo | 18º or 18mo | 18 | 36 | 4 × 6½ | 10 × 16.5 | |
trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo | 32º or 32mo | 32 | 64 | 3½ × 5½ | 9 × 14 | |
quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo | 48º or 48mo | 48 | 96 | 2½ × 4 | 6.5 × 10 | |
sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo | 64º or 64mo | 64 | 128 | 2 × 3 | 5 × 7.5 | |
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