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THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER
by Potter, Beatrix
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0723205949
- ISBN 13
- 9780723205944
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, ?NUMBER 3 IN THE SERIES,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Reprint.* Date of Publication: Undated (1969) Publishers? code: 927.469* Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Orange colour paper covered boards, red titles to spine & face. Truncated triangular coloured plate laid on to board with an impressed frame. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges and spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated paper dust wrapper, black titles to spine and face. Front flap clipped but showing a shelf price of 7/- net. on publishers adhesive label. Some age & shelf wear to jacket. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers showing a garland of Potter characters. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous colour illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 59 pp. text.* Description: The story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished when he falls ill by the grateful mice that he rescued from his cat and was based on a real world incident involving a tailor and his assistants. For years, Potter declared that, of all her books, it was her personal favourite.* A NEAR FINE text reprint copy of No. 03 in this series with some age & wear to jacket reducing it to VG, now in clear protective jacket.*
Synopsis
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California. An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own—a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come to work on a ranch in the fertile Salinas Valley of California, their hopes, like "the best-laid schemes o' mice an' men," begin to go awry. Of Mice and Men explores themes of human interaction, dependence, and the damaging effects of isolation. (Goodreads)
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Reviews
On Mar 23 2011, JPM730 said:
This is the greatest, most heartwarming book i have ever read!
On Mar 21 2007, Amli703 said:
nice book
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3234
- Title
- THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER
- Author
- Potter, Beatrix
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint 1969
- ISBN 10
- 0723205949
- ISBN 13
- 9780723205944
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne
- Place of Publication
- London UK 59
- Date Published
- 1969-04-01
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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