Alice and Thomas and Jane
by Bagnold, Enid
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Junior Literary Guild, 1931. Children's adventures in the author's town of Rottingdean, near Brighton, nicely illustrated in a folk style by the author & a local child. Bagnold is best remembered for National Velvet. Hardcover in jacket as poictured. Light wear to book; corners bumped, edges lightly faded; jacket shows some chipping, short tears, some scuffing & tanning to spine; bookplate, a few stains to a few pages, upper page corners lightly creased. Text clean; [8], [174] pages; line drawings tinted in pink & olive, b/w frontispiece photo of the illustrator. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by The Author and Laurian Jones. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- u0567
- Title
- Alice and Thomas and Jane
- Author
- Bagnold, Enid
- Illustrator
- The Author and Laurian Jones
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Junior Literary Guild
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Children's Books, England
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...