The Cuckoo Clock
by MOLESWORTH, Mrs [Mary Louisa Stewart]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0333290593
- ISBN 13
- 9780333290590
- Seller
-
Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1980. Burgundy cloth with gilt stamped decs and lettering in pictorial pink dustwrapper; 196pp; 16 colour plates plus b/w ills. Light rubbing and bumping to extremities; Dustwrapper is sunned to spine and outer edges, rubbed, nicked and curled to edges with indentation marks to rear panel. A facsimile reprint of the 1931 children's edition, telling the charming Victorian story of a small girl and her enchanted cuckoo clock.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by BROCK, C.E..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jenny Wren Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012739
- Title
- The Cuckoo Clock
- Author
- MOLESWORTH, Mrs [Mary Louisa Stewart]
- Illustrator
- BROCK, C.E.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0333290593
- ISBN 13
- 9780333290590
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
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About the Seller
Jenny Wren Books
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Maidstone, Kent
About Jenny Wren Books
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