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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1953 VG+/VG+. 8vo. original terracotta cloth gilt (slightly sunned, a little rubbed & marked, endpapers offset, small rsm ('Childrens Book Council of Victoria') to verso FFE) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a trifle rubbed & nicked); pp. 284. A very good copy.. Second Impression. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024518
- Title
- Big Red
- Author
- Lamond, Henry G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- Second Impression
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Henry Lamond Big Red Queensland Australia Kangaroo Animal Stories Childrens Literature Australian Literature
Terms of Sale
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
Biblio member since 2022
Castlemaine, Victoria
About Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
Bricks and mortar bookshop with substantial online stock, specialising in travel and adventure books. Open by chance or appointment, most likely on weekends. Note that our online stock is stored off site, so best contact us in advance to check opening hours and arrange a viewing.
Glossary
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- VG+/VG+
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly better than Very Good Condition. Very...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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