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The Book of the Flower Fairies. Poems and pictures by Cicely Mary Barker
by Barker, Cicely M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Town, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Blackie & Son Limited. A delightful volume with beautiful colour illustrations of nature fairies. Small bookseller label, some abrasions caused by old cellotape, and the name of previous owner on front end papers. Colour plate for each fairy. Green tint to top edge with some light foxing to fore- and lower page edges. Foxing throughout. 90 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Dustjacket: Fair. Price clipped. Foxing with clear tape reinforcements to folds and tears on the verso. A few 2cm closed tears to the lower edges. Creasing. Light soiling. Binding: Hardcover. Green cloth boards with bright gilt lettering and image of a fairy. Some light bumping to spine edges. Boards in very good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quagga Books
(ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 304845
- Title
- The Book of the Flower Fairies. Poems and pictures by Cicely Mary Barker
- Author
- Barker, Cicely M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son Limited
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Natural History;
Terms of Sale
Quagga Books
If an item is misdescribed we will offer a full refund. Tracking is only offered on the expedited postage option. Please note we offer the standard postage option without any tracking as an option for lower priced items as courier from South Africa is costly. Thus standard postage items in transit are at the purchaser's risk. Postage based on standard average sizes, if an item is particularly small, we will reduce the postage. If an item is larger than standard size, postage may increase.
About the Seller
Quagga Books
Biblio member since 2018
Cape Town
About Quagga Books
We have been in business for over 25 years. Situated in Kalk Bay, Cape Town at the Southern tip of Africa, we deal in all types of collectable books. Over the years we have been featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Louis Vuitton Travel Guide, The Guardian and numerous others.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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