Rouseabout Jane
by Dare, Jane
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG++/ VG/GD+
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1957* Publisher: Whitcomb and Tombs Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Light blue/green cloth. Black title to spine. Slight bump to lower front edge. Corners good. Very slight spotting to front board. Slight sunning to top and bottome edges. VG* Jacket condition: Grey, black and yellow design to cover. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 12/6d. Slight chips and tears to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Slightly aged. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with little reading wear, no marks to text, top edge lightly sunned, gift inscription to f.e.p. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 198 pp. text.* Description: An unexpected and interesting view of life on New Zealand farms is given in Rouseabout Jane, which relates the experiences of an English girl who worked as a landgirl during the war years. Coming to a country where all was strange, she found conditions very different from those she knew in England. Her comments on the New Zealand scene and its people have an appealing freshness, while her experiences are unexpected and varied.* A VG copy with a slightly dowdy dust jacket showing some chips and tears to edges.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2804
- Title
- Rouseabout Jane
- Author
- Dare, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/ VG/GD+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Publisher
- Whitcombe And Tombs Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Australia 0
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- New
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- Jacket
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- Reprint
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
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- Crisp
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- Edges
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- 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....
- Sunned
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- VG
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- Price Clipped
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