Oxford Book of Poetry for Children
by Edward Blishen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Oxford University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1963. First Edition. 167 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards. Contains colour in-text illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Faint pen inscription to front pastedown, with light ink marking to front free endpaper. Occasional thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits, causing spine ends to be slightly loose. Light tanning to spine and edges. Book is slightly forward leaning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Jacket is in plastic cover. Mild tanning to spine and edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1643709950ADA
- Title
- Oxford Book of Poetry for Children
- Author
- Edward Blishen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 1963
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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
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