London: University of London Press, 1952. Hardback small quarto, no jacket, fair condition only, pictorial board cover, black & white & colour drawings, endpapers & edges lightly foxed, corners bumped & worn, edgewear, wear along spine edges, slight loss spine ends, cover edges rubbed, rear cover little rubbed & marked, pages lightly toned, few marks & toned spots some pages, pencil drawings rear blank page, colour drawing rear pastedown (impressions facing page). 95 pp. A book of stories, games, puzzles, cartoons, things to make, verse, and hobby pages from the 1950s. They have some exciting and unusual adventures. Muffin and his friends are Hogarth puppets which were part of a television show in Britain. They first appeared in an edition of For The Children broadcast on 20th October, 1946. They became Britain's best-known puppet company at home and abroad.

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Bookseller: Bookhome Sydney (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 30897
Title: The Green Muffin Book [Muffin Books].
Author: Hogarth, Ann
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of London Press
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1952
Keywords: reference, annuals, young adults, performing arts, puppets, media, television (tv), britain, collectible, collectable
Bookseller catalogs: YOUNG ADULTS;

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Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....