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The Book of the Countryside
by F. Martin / Lucy T. Duncan & Duncan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Collins, 1951. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is faded/sunned. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Edges foxed and browned. The publication date given above is an estimate only, there being no date given in the book. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Animals & Birds; Farming & Rural Life. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 11176. .
Reviews
On Mar 17 2015, a reader said:
THIS WAS A GOOD STORY AND IT FLOWED WITHOUT TOO MUCH UNINTERESTING FILLER. IT WAS A CLEAN WRITTEN AND STILLVERY GOOD. I ENJOY BOOKS THAT HAVE A STORY TO THEM AND ARE NOT ALL ABOUT SEX, MURDER AND CURSE WORDS AND WORSE.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11176
- Title
- The Book of the Countryside
- Author
- F. Martin / Lucy T. Duncan & Duncan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Animals & Birds; Farming & Rural Life. F. Martin / Lucy T. Duncan & Duncan The Book of the Countryside
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals & Birds;
Terms of Sale
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mastercard, Visa, Amex, Diners Cards and PayPal accepted and preferred. Direct deposits, cheques by arrangement. All transactions in $AU. Returns accepted within 30 days of receipt if goods supplied are clearly not as advertised or described. Return shipping/freight refunded to customer if supplied products are flawed or have been clearly mis-described, otherwise at purchaser's expense. Returns to be in condition as originally shipped. Trade discounts and shipments under invoice available to regular customers, email for details.
About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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