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One Thousand Poems For Children A Choice of The Best Verse Old and New. Edited by Roger Ingpen. Illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts. Revised and Enlarged Edition.
by INGPEN, Roger:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs and Company, 1923 revised. Hardback 9.5 x 7 inches. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, colour title plate to front. In dustwrapper. Colour illustrated endpapers. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (DW, edges torn with chipping and some loss, rear flap lost. In protective sleeve.) Small chips to cloth on board corners and ends of spine. Front plate clean and bright. Some tanning to endpapers, cracked at inner hinges. Some minor tanning to pages and some occasional minor handling marks. Edges rubbed and some small tears to edges of two leaves p191-194. Colour plates clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 563pp. Illustrated with 8 full page colour plates plus a colour illustrated title page.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95179
- Title
- One Thousand Poems For Children A Choice of The Best Verse Old and New. Edited by Roger Ingpen. Illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts. Revised and Enlarged Edition.
- Author
- INGPEN, Roger:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs and Company, 1923 revised
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books INGPEN, Roger: One Thousand Poems For Children, Illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts, colour plates, dustwrapper, jacket, George W. Jacobs and Company, 1923 revised, Longfellow, Blake, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Edgar Allen Poe, Bronte, Hema
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About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Chipping
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- Tight
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