THE MARGARET TARRANT STORY BOOK
by Tarrant, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Wm Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1953. 128 pages. 8 in x 10 in. Half title page illustrated with lovely b/w drawing. Frontispiece illustrated with delightful color plate. Title page also has a b/w drawing at center. Further illustrated with 7 more color plates and many wonderful drawings. Pages good condition. Half title page and page after it very lightly foxed. Red cloth with purple illustration and titles. Boards warped. Head/tail of spine and corners lightly worn and bumped. Blue dust jacket illustrated in color on upper cover. DJ not price cliipped and worn at all edges. Tears on upper cover and bottom corner of lower cover. Inside of book v/g. Overall GOOD+/GOOD. Reprint. Hard Cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032411
- Title
- THE MARGARET TARRANT STORY BOOK
- Author
- Tarrant, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Wm Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Children's Literature,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
J. Wyatt Books
Biblio member since 2005
Ottawa, Ontario
About J. Wyatt Books
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- Jacket
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- Half Title
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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