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The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter
by Potter, Beatrix
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/F/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0752904469
- ISBN 13
- 9780752904467
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 19 * Publisher: 1996. * Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated laminated glossy boards showing Beatrix Potter vignettes, black titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Matching dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £29.99. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom rear edges and some age darkening to front and rear covers. VG+ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. Very slight page distortion to margins throughout. VG+.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w prints and line drawings throughout from the originals by Beatrix Potter. * Pages: 235 pp. text.* Description: . Large format. White pictorial glazed boards. Nineteen stories of Peter Rabbit and his friends. This volume contains the complete and unabridged texts of the original stories.~ with the exception of 'The Tailor of Gloucester' and 'The Pie and the Patty-Pan' - which have been edited .* A NEAR VG++ copy with minor faults in VG+ dust jacket, now in clear un-attached protective wrapper.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8871
- Title
- The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter
- Author
- Potter, Beatrix
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/F/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Thus, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0752904469
- ISBN 13
- 9780752904467
- Publisher
- Leopard Books
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 236
- Date Published
- 1996-10-01
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