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Perkin the Pedlar
by Eleanor Farjeon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn. A little age-toned at the top edge
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press, 1956. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn. A little age-toned at the top edge of the text block. The contents complete, clean and tight. Faint offset from a now removed book plate to the the first blank.. Dodie Masterman. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (white boards with red titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (0.8 kg); 173pp; Illustrated by Dodie Masterman; First edition thus, first published 1932 by Faber & Faber. Includes: Black & white drawings; Frontispiece; Title page vignette; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #196167|| Condition:
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 196167
- Title
- Perkin the Pedlar
- Author
- Eleanor Farjeon
- Illustrator
- Dodie Masterman
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn. A little age-toned at the top edge
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- alphabet books, alphabet rhymes, alphabet literature, alphabet novels, alphabet stories, teaching alphabet, first edition books, books by eleanor farjeon, dodie masterman, children's fiction, children's stories, adventure stories, young adult fict
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BookLovers of Bath
As a distance seller based in England, I am required to abide by the terms of the "Distance Selling Act", details of which are freely available. This ensures that you have the highest degree of protection when purchasing from me. Alongside that, I prefer to treat my customers in the manner that I expect to be treated; my guarantee is complete satisfaction or your money back - I aim to please, not just for the one book sale but to ensure that should you require another book, another time that my name against it means it gets your consideration.
About the Seller
BookLovers of Bath
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset
About BookLovers of Bath
BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
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- Sunned
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
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- Text Block
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- First Edition
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- 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...
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