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BOTTERSNIKES AND GUMBLES
by Wakefield, S. A
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Collins, 1967. Drawings by Desmond Digby. Pp. 80, title page vignette, plus numerous text illustrations (1 full page); small cr. 4to; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, corners a trifle rubbed, bottom edge of upper board slightly shelf worn; dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges rubbed and creased, with a few tiny splits or chips and a couple of mainly short closed tears repaired with paper tape on reverse, the laminate peeling slightly at top edge of back panel; free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves lightly foxed, small piece torn from bottom fore-corner of 2 leaves; Collins, Sydney, 1967. First edition. Muir 7807. *The first book about the lazy Bottersnikes and friendly Gumbles.
Synopsis
Bottersnikes and Gumbles are fictitious creatures in a series of children's books by Australian writer S. A. Wakefield and illustrated by Desmond Digby. They live in the Australian bush. Bottersnikes have green wrinkly skin, cheese-grater noses and long, pointed ears that go red when they are angry, which is most of the time. They are perhaps the laziest creatures in the world.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 134617
- Title
- BOTTERSNIKES AND GUMBLES
- Author
- Wakefield, S. A
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1967
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About the Seller
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- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
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