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The Magic Pudding: Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff
by LINDSAY, Norman
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1918. First Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. Fair. 171 p. 29 cm. B&w line drawings. Colour title page. A. & R. endpapers. Brown spine with tan paper boards. From our As Is shelf. Dampstains and soiling to boards. Corners and edges worn. Rear hinge cracked and spine coming loose. Also cracked at half title. Ink signatures on half title including "Mrs. L. Harrison with the Publishers' Comps". Dampstains throughout. Colour title detached with numerous tears to edges. Hole and tear in p. 112.
A "Down Under" fantasy starring a koala and a talking pudding. A vignette of Albert the pudding appears on the front cover, wearing his bowl on his head.
A "Down Under" fantasy starring a koala and a talking pudding. A vignette of Albert the pudding appears on the front cover, wearing his bowl on his head.
Synopsis
The Magic Pudding: Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff is an Australian children's book written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay. It is a comic fantasy, a classic of Australian children's literature.
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124791
- Title
- The Magic Pudding: Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff
- Author
- LINDSAY, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Issue
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- Children's, Australian
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- First Edition
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- Title Page
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- Cracked
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- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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