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Frisky Tales. True Nature Stories.
by FARREN, LADY:
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
A & C Black Ltd. 1928 1st.. 8.25 x 6.0 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine and blind embossed design to front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper. (d/w. Slightly rubbed around edges with small tears and corners slightly rubbed. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Mild foxing to edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Neat pencil inscription to front endpaper, dated 1928. Occasional foxing spots inside. Else a clean and tight copy. 179 pp. With colour frontis and 16 b/w photograph plates. Stories from real life observations, designed to be read aloud. The author originally told the stories on fine Saturday mornings at the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91508
- Title
- Frisky Tales. True Nature Stories.
- Author
- FARREN, LADY:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A & C Black Ltd. 1928 1st.
- Keywords
- NATURAL HISTORY A.& C .Black dustwrapper first edition Literature Natural History
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Gilt
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