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Canny Tales Fae Aberdeen: A Book to Make You Laugh
by Compiled by Allan Junior
- Used
- Good
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$25.14A$18.85
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About This Item
Canny Tales Fae Aberdeen: A Book to Make You Laugh, compiled by Allan Junior, illustrated by Gregor McGregor.
Staple-bound card covers, 1929, 22nd edition, published by Valentine & Sons Ltd, Dundee and London, 36 pages.
Slim volume, with dust jacket, which is torn and tattered, with some scuffing and marking. Brown card covers, gilt lettering to front cover, quite clean. Page edges slightly foxed, scuffed and browned but reasonably clean. Tipped in frontispiece of Aberdeen. A few little areas of foxing towards edges of pages in preliminaries and hindmost pages but otherwise page surfaces clean, with no marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for further information.
Slim volume, with dust jacket, which is torn and tattered, with some scuffing and marking. Brown card covers, gilt lettering to front cover, quite clean. Page edges slightly foxed, scuffed and browned but reasonably clean. Tipped in frontispiece of Aberdeen. A few little areas of foxing towards edges of pages in preliminaries and hindmost pages but otherwise page surfaces clean, with no marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-522
- Title
- Canny Tales Fae Aberdeen
- Author
- Compiled by Allan Junior
- Illustrator
- Gregor McGregor
- Format/Binding
- Card covers, staple-bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 22nd Edition
- Publisher
- Valentine & Sons Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Dundee
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- 36
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Humour, Scotland, Scottish, Aberdeen, Doric
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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