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Folk Tales of the The British Isles
by Crossley-Holland, Kevin (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0571137865
- ISBN 13
- 9780571137862
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Faber and Faber. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0571137865 . 391 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Light crinkling at the spine ends. Text block edges have a bit of soiling. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustwrapper has a little crinkling along the edges and one small corner tear. Not price clipped. A collection of British folk tales (Wales, Scotland, Ireland, England), arranged by main theme or subject. Illustrated with wood cuts. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3011
- Title
- Folk Tales of the The British Isles
- Author
- Crossley-Holland, Kevin (Editor)
- Illustrator
- Hannah Firmin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0571137865
- ISBN 13
- 9780571137862
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- 0571137865
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Folk Tales;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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