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Black Hearts in Battersea
by Aiken, Joan
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- F-
- ISBN 10
- 0099888602
- ISBN 13
- 9780099888604
- Seller
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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Red Fox, 1992 12mo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed); pp. 251, [5 (pubs. advts., last blank)], with illustrations. A near fine copy. The second of the Wolves Chronicles, but third in chronological order.. Reprint. Soft Cover. F-. Illus. by Pat Marriott.
Synopsis
Black Hearts in Battersea is a children's novel by Joan Aiken first published in 1964. The second book in the Wolves Chronicles, it is loosely a sequel to her earlier Wolves of Willoughby Chase. The book is set in a slightly altered historical England—during the reign of King James III—in the early 1800s, and follows the adventures of Simon, an orphan whose plans to study painting in London are derailed by high adventure.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017906
- Title
- Black Hearts in Battersea
- Author
- Aiken, Joan
- Illustrator
- Pat Marriott
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F-
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0099888602
- ISBN 13
- 9780099888604
- Publisher
- Red Fox
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Joan Aiken Wolves Willoughby Chase Black Hearts
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Castlemaine, Victoria
About Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...