The Magic Island
by Talbot, Ethel
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
4 Bouveire Street: R. T. S. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Mills, Reginald. Charming Castaway Children's story. Colour frontis illus. by Reginald Mills shows a boy and girl under Palm Trees. Undated Edition, Gift inscription on ffep dated 1919. Green cloth cover with large Colour Pastedown (same as frontis) illustration, with Black Lettering above & below and Black Linear border. Black lettering & decoration on spine. 126 Pages, 300g, 7 1/2" Tall. Some fading to cloth and Spine decoration. Sunday school stamp on ffep. Binding cracked between ffep and half title page. Hinges sound. Pages in very good, clean condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016486
- Title
- The Magic Island
- Author
- Talbot, Ethel
- Illustrator
- Mills, Reginald
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- R. T. S
- Place of Publication
- 4 Bouveire Street
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S FICTION
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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