The Tree That Sat Down
by Nichols, Beverley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1945). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Fading to head and tail of spine. 15mm missing to head of dust-jacket spine. Some fading to dust-jacket spine. Some tears to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First printing. 302, [2 (blank)] pages + colour frontispiece. Green cloth boards with silver lettering on spine, black peacock illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 198 x 130mm. Top page edges dyed blue. Rabbit illustrations on endpapers. Children's story. Illustrated from drawings by Isobel and John Morton Sale. "The author writes: 'Here is a fairy story and I am afraid it is a real old-fashioned one, because it is full of magic spells (with detailed directions telling you how to use them yourself), and it has witches and wizards and transformation scenes and everybody lives happily ever afterwards.'" - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22217
- Title
- The Tree That Sat Down
- Author
- Nichols, Beverley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1945)
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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