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The Story of Miss Moppet, (Copy 2).
by Potter, Beatrix
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0723206120
- ISBN 13
- 9780723206125
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Reprint.* Date of Publication: Undated (1968) Publishers? code: 813.668* Publisher: F.Warne & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Mottled buff paper covered boards with circular colour illustration of kitten with blue ball laid on to cover and surrounded with maroon circular frame, maroon title to spine & face. No bumps, or rubs, minor shelf wear to edges and corners. Spine not split or torn. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated stiff card jacket, colour illustrated with black title to spine and face. Slightly grubby with a very few marks. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured illustration to end papers showing the animals looking at a list of the Peter Rabbit Books being posted on a hoarding. Clean, crisp and bright with no reading wear. No marks to text, very slight marks to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Colour illustrations throughout.* Pages: 35 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Miss Moppet is teased by a mouse who keeps on evading her clutches and during the chase she bangs her head on the cupboard. She sits in front of the fire with a duster over her head looking very vulnerable. The mouse creeps up beside her as he thinks she is looking ill but Miss Moppet spies him through a hole in the duster and manages to catch him. She ties him up in the duster to teach him a lesson but forgets the hole and the mouse escapes and goes back to teasing her by dancing a jig on the mantle piece.* A NEAR VG++ copy with some minor age to dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4887
- Title
- The Story of Miss Moppet, (Copy 2).
- Author
- Potter, Beatrix
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint 1968
- ISBN 10
- 0723206120
- ISBN 13
- 9780723206125
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne Publishers Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK 40
- Date Published
- 1968-01-01
- Size
- 50.8 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm
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- Shelf Wear
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...