Christchurch: The Caxton Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1961. Second Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Moderate browning and spotting to page edges. Dust wrapper spine chipped with loss. Dust wrapper foxed and brittle, particularly at spine and margins. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover.; 123 pages. Dimensions: 7 3/8" by 4 3/4". "The Lagoon" was Janet Frame's first published book. The scarce first edition was published in 1951. This second edition was published in 1961. It is a similar format to the first edition. ; 12mo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4646
Title: The Lagoon and Other Stories
Author: Frame, Janet
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: The Caxton Press
Place of Publication: Christchurch
Date Published: 1961

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First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...