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Ameliaranne Goes Touring
by Heward, Constance
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1959. Reprint. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: S. B. Pearse. Colour illustrated endpapers. The text is illustrated with full-colour and a full-page, every second page, illustrations and black-and-white drawings to the top and bottom of each of the other pages drawn by S. B. Pearse. 1/4 light blue coloured cloth covered back strip with dark blue coloured titles. 3/4 illustrated boards with red and blue coloured titles. After being disappointed about visiting their uncle, Ameliaranne and her family go on a tour around their county in a grand old car. Softening to the back strip edges with chipping of the book corners, and various bumping to the top and bottom book edges. Remains of insect activity can be seen to the top and lower book edges with sunning of the back strip. The spine is somewhat cocked and there is browning of the text block edges. Age toning of the pages and there is a gift inscription to the top edge of the free front endpaper. Offset tanning to the end pages and original bookseller's sticker to the lower right hand corner of the front paste-down – this is ghosted on to the free front endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Not paginated [58 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: S. B. Pearse. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; Illustrated; Britain/UK; 1940s; Inventory No: 0122060. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0122060
- Title
- Ameliaranne Goes Touring
- Author
- Heward, Constance
- Illustrator
- S. B. Pearse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- BZDB2 illustrated children's book, children's picture book, 1940s, British, Ameliaranne, holiday, S. B. Pearse – Illustrator Children; Illustrated; Britain/UK; 1940s; S. B. Pearse Unbranded Heward, Constance Ameliaranne Goes Touring
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- Illustrated;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
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
Glossary
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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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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