The Tale of Tom Tiddler
by Farjeon, Eleanor
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Collins' Clear-Type Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. [c1930?]. Hardcover. Previous owner's heavy signature on front endpaper has left impressions on frontispiece and title leaf. Dust-jacket with some rubbing and creasing, small 5mm tears at head and tail of dust-jacket spine, 8mm chip at corner. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Early reprint. No date [c1930?]. 191, [1] pages. Colour frontispiece within the pagination. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board, gilt silhouette illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 205 x 144mm. Illustrated. "Tom Tiddler was born in a hollow oak, in a buttercup-and-daisy field." - page 11. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22380
- Title
- The Tale of Tom Tiddler
- Author
- Farjeon, Eleanor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Collins' Clear-Type Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [c1930?]
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.