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JOAN IN FLOWERLAND.
by TARRANT, Margaret (illustrator). Text by Tarrant and Lewis Dutton.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Warne, (1954).. Reprint (1954) dated from printer's code, small 4to, 215 x 165 mm, 8½ x 6½ inches, cream textured boards, red vignette and lettering, green illustrated endpapers, 60 pages. Coloured frontispiece and 15 very pretty coloured plates, plus many line drawings, all by Tarrant. All the illustrations are of flower fairies and small children. A few very minor marks to covers, very slight bump to top corners, no inscriptions, contents clean and bright. A very good plus copy in fair colour illustrated white DUSTWRAPPER, upper panel still attractive (dw: price clipped, slightly dusty looking, worn on spine with pieces missing, strengthened on reverse with white binder's tape, small chips to corners, several short closed edge tears, 2 on lower panel mended on the outside with browning from old clear tape now removed). First published undated in 1935 in blue cloth, reprinted a year later dated 1936 also in blue cloth. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44482
- Title
- JOAN IN FLOWERLAND.
- Author
- TARRANT, Margaret (illustrator). Text by Tarrant and Lewis Dutton.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Warne, (1954).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- flower fairies children's picture book Margaret Tarrant
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
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About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
Glossary
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Vignette
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Price Clipped
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- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
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