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The Muddle-headed Wombat on Holiday
by Ruth Park
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Educational Press, Australia, 1967. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Noela Young. Book Reprint. Size: Large 8vo ( 9 to 11 inches). Item Type: Book. Text body is clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine slightly cocked. Dust Jacket quite worn at edges, small chips and tears. Spine of dust jacket is faded and the interior is moderately browned. Edges foxed and browned. Minor edgewear to boards. Scattered marks, but text of book is clean.. Now protected in non-adhesive plastic wrap. Illustrator: Noela Young..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shiny Owl Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42979
- Title
- The Muddle-headed Wombat on Holiday
- Author
- Ruth Park
- Illustrator
- Noela Young
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Educational Press
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Children's Fiction; Noela Young Ruth Park The Muddle-headed Wombat on Holiday
Terms of Sale
Shiny Owl Books
We do not Drop Ship Internationally. Drop Ships within Australia will attract a $5 surcharge
About the Seller
Shiny Owl Books
Biblio member since 2006
Mona Vale, New South Wales
About Shiny Owl Books
Formerly known as Retriever Books, Dee Why we now have a bookshop in Mona Vale further up the peninsula on the Northern Beaches of SydneyOpening HoursTuesday to Friday 10.15 to 5Saturday 9.30 to 4.30Sunday & Monday closedOpen every day except New Year's Day, Australia Day, Anzac Day, Good Friday, Mother's Day, Christmas Day and Boxing DayWe have over fifty categories of books in-store, we appear to have many titles inCurrently only 8000 books are listed here. Please use the offline search service link to forward us a book title you require or just send an email.Not all online titles are held in the shop, so contact us prior to coming in to view particular titles.Up to 8 hour free parking across the road in the council car park
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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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