Spotlight on Penelope
by Dennison, Dorothy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
The Paternoster Press, London, 1950. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: John Harcourt Finnie. 200 g.; VI, 7-104 pages. Illustrated endpapers, showing a map of France and the route taken by the characters. The text is illustrated with 31 illustrations by John Harcourt Finnie. Green coloured boards with black titles to the front panel and backstrip. Bumping to the lower backstrip edge and to the top corners. A little scuffing to the book edges. Light browning and foxing to the text block edges. Illustrated dustwrapper, being a reproduction of a French Railway Poster, with black titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the backstrip, with loss. A few small tears to the top dustwrapper edge with associated creasing and a small tear to the lower edge of the front dustwrapper panel. Rubbing to either side of the backstrip and to the dustwrapper panels. Yellowing of the rear dustwrapper panel. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. Light browning and faint foxing to verso of the dustwrapper. The adventures of Dr. and Mrs Courtney and their children in France, and more particularly in Brittany. The first of the Courtney Chronicles. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: John Harcourt Finnie. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Illustrated; France; fiction -- adolescent; Inventory No: 0107308. .
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0107308
- Title
- Spotlight on Penelope
- Author
- Dennison, Dorothy
- Illustrator
- John Harcourt Finnie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Paternoster Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Adolescent Fiction -- 1950s -- Travel -- France, Courtney Chronicles -- Series -- Number 1 Children; Illustrated; France; fiction -- adolescent; John Harcourt Finnie Unbranded Dennison, Dorothy Spotlight on Penelope
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction -- Adolescent; Illustrated; France;
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
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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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- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...