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The Victorian Readers: Fourth Book
by Education Department Victoria
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
A. C. Brooks, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1940. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. Illustrated throughout with line drawings, and black-and-white photographs. Light brown coloured boards with black coloured titles the front panel and back strip. A collection of short stories of mythology, culture of the various countries, and fairytales. While the title page says printed 1940, V back of the frontispiece has an inscription printed 9880/60-1. I would suggest that this is a later printing. Softening of the back strip edges with a little rubbing of the book edges with bumping of the lower book corners. Blue coloured ink stain to the front panel with stains and handling marks to the rear panel stop browning and foxing of the text block edges with browning of the pages. Previous owners name to the top edge of the title page. Remnants of tape can be seen to the end pages and there is offset tanning also present. Second Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 181 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; Children. Inventory No: 0288701. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0288701
- Title
- The Victorian Readers: Fourth Book
- Author
- Education Department Victoria
- Illustrator
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A. C. Brooks, Government Printer
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- BZDB2 education, school book, Illustrated Education; Children. Various Unbranded Education Department Victoria The Victorian Readers: Fourth Book
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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