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The Brownies and Other Tales; Six to Sixteen - A Story for Girls; Great Emergency and Other Tales; Jan of the Windmill, A Story of the Plains
by Juliana Horatia Ewing
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$29.07A$23.26
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George Bell & Sons, 1887 Book. Illus. by George Cruikshank, Mrs W Allingham. Fair. Half-Bound in Leather. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Four volumes bound together in brown leather over marbled boards with raised bands to spine, marbled endpapers and top edges gilt. Hinges repaired with brown tape, bumping and rubbing to spine and corners, loss to top and bottom of backstrip, slight foxing to endpapers and newspaper clippings pasted in, dated 1930, otherwise fair/good reading copy. Illustrated with black and white drawings. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage may be required for Air Mail shipping..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014504
- Title
- The Brownies and Other Tales; Six to Sixteen - A Story for Girls; Great Emergency and Other Tales; Jan of the Windmill, A Story of the Plains
- Author
- Juliana Horatia Ewing
- Illustrator
- George Cruikshank, Mrs W Allingham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- George Bell & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1887
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collectable Fiction;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Marbled boards
- ...
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