A Nursery in the Nineties
by FARJEON, Eleanor; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1960. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST THUS, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Substantial 8vo, pp. 534 + b/w portrait frontis and plates. Original green cloth, spine lettered in bronze. Spine cocked, fine bands of sunning to edges and spine ends. Scant foxing to edges. Inscribed by Farjeon in blue ink to ffep: "To dear Bertha and/ Charles Rose with love/ from Little Ellie/ and old Eleanor Farjeon/ June 9th 1960", a few fox spots, minute booksellser label to rear pastedown. Short note (9 x 8.5cm) laid in between related pages (pp. 532-3), seemingly in the hand of Bertha Rose, about Farjeon's efforts for the Farjeon Foundation in Dunedin, New Zealand. Else, clean and tidy. In the original dust jacket: sunned, with only a patch of the original pink to rear panel, soiling to rear panel, short closed tear to top edge of front panel. Very good/ good+ Farjeon's childhood memoir was first published by Gollancz in 1935.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2217
- Title
- A Nursery in the Nineties
- Author
- FARJEON, Eleanor; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
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- Signed & Association Copies;
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Quair Books
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