Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.. Fair in Good dust jacket. [1960]. Hard cover. Blue cloth cover with wear and soiling at edges. The spine has a tilt. Back hinge cracked but not separated. Library tape repair between half-title page and title page. There are the usual library stamps and marks. Pages and endpapers have some foxing. DJ in mylar, which is taped to endpapers, and would be vg but for a small piece out of the top corner of back flap and a short tear at top at foreedge. Not price clipped. ; Ex-Library; Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages .

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Barbara Sleigh (1906—1982) is the author of Carbonel: The King of The Cats (The New York Review Children’s Collection, 2004) and its two sequels, The Kingdom of Carbonel and Carbonel and Calidor (to be published by The New York Review Children’s Collection in 2010). She worked for the BBC’s Children’s Hour . Besides being a well-known illustrator of children’s books, Richard Kennedy (1910—1989) worked in oils and watercolors. He went to work for Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their embryonic Hogarth Press in 1926, at the age of sixteen, and was propelled into Bloomsbury life. He is the author of A Boy at Hogarth Press , an illustrated diary of his years there.

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Bookseller: James F. Balsley, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9059
Title: THE KINGDOM OF CARBONEL
Author: Sleigh, Barbara
Illustrator: Leonard, D. M.
Format/Binding: Hard cover
Book Condition: Used - Fair in Good dust jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date Published: [1960]
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs: Children & Juvenile; Children''s Collectible; Children''s Classics;

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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...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...