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The Water Horse
by King-Smith, Dick
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670830445
- ISBN 13
- 9780670830442
- Seller
-
Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Viking, 1990. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Parkins, David. First edition, first printing, with full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket which is clean and bright with minor spotting and rubbing to edges and without chips or tears. Blue cloth with white lettering to spine, also clean and bright with minor edge wear. Child's name written in ballpoint pen to ffep, a few light spots to endpapers, light spotting to page edges, contents o/w clean, bright and tight. 96 pp. Drawings by David Parkins. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.
Synopsis
After 20 years as a farmer, Dick King-Smith turned to teaching and then to writing the children's books that have earned him critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bath and West Books (PBFA)
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005784
- Title
- The Water Horse
- Author
- King-Smith, Dick
- Illustrator
- Parkins, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Impression First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670830445
- ISBN 13
- 9780670830442
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Children's; Modern Firsts; Children's Literature; Children's Novels; First Edition Children's Books
Terms of Sale
Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Book orders are professionally packed and shipped within 48 hours.
Returns accepted within 14 days of delivery but please contact us in first instance.
About the Seller
Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Biblio member since 2009
Bath, Somerset
About Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Bath and West Books is an online/mail order business owned by Jo West and based just outside the city of Bath. I have been dealing in antiquarian and secondhand books since 2003 and I buy and sell books on a wide variety of subjects with particular interests in Literature and Poetry, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Modern Firsts, History, Politics, Children's and Illustrated Books, Travel, Art, Fine Bindings, Literary Sets, the Folio Society and anything unusual and interesting. Please visit www.BathandWestBooks.co.uk for further information. You can also follow us at Twitter.com/BathWestBooks.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- 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....
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