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The Frog Castle
by Gaarder, Jostein
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 1858817854
- ISBN 13
- 9781858817859
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1999* Publisher: Ted Smart.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, Silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust jacket, NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £10.00. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. One small tear at lower rear. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w line drawings by Philip Hopman.* Pages: 147 pp. text. v pp. Advertisements at rear.* Description: The magical adventures of a small boy who helps a frog turn back into a prince, and is rewarded with a visit to the Frog Castle. Here, in an Alice-in-Wonderland story where dreams and reality are intertwined and time is turned on its head, he meets a little princess called Aurora, a wicked lord chamberlain, a bold queen and a kind king whose heart is stolen away. In THE FROG CASTLE nothing is quite what it seems.* A NEAR FINE copy with minimal faults to dust jacket reducing it to VG++*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1290
- Title
- The Frog Castle
- Author
- Gaarder, Jostein
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1858817854
- ISBN 13
- 9781858817859
- Publisher
- TED SMART> Orion Children's Books.
- Place of Publication
- St. Helens UK 147
- Date Published
- 1999-11-25
- Size
- 21.4 x 16 x 2.2 cm
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- Shelf Wear
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- Crisp
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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