Children's Games Throughout the Year. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR.
by DAIKEN, Leslie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
B.T. Batsford, London. 1949. First edition. B.T. Batsford, London. 1949. Hardback with dust-wrapper. SIGNED presentation copy from the author "To Dr. Sydney Scott Son of the same Alma Mater and 'Peter Pan of the Pulpit' in Winchester Diocese Sincerely Leslie Daiken Selborne, Alton, Feb. 1953" to half-title. Colour frontis. 216 pages. Illustrated with b&w plates + drawings in text. Index. Large 8vo. Fore-edges foxed, gift inscription to front endpaper. Endpapers are browned but contents overall are very clean and sound. Lovely wrapper a little browned to margins and spine and only slightly worn at extremities. A lovely copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Addyman Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 97272
- Title
- Children's Games Throughout the Year. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR.
- Author
- DAIKEN, Leslie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- B.T. Batsford, London. 1949
- Keywords
- social history childhood
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Addyman Books
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