The White Witch
by GOUDGE Elizabeth
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder, 1958 price clipped DW with rubbing wear to spine and edges, minor chipping to corners and spine ends, fold down length of spine, fore edge folds rubbed through in some places, book clean but spine cloth sun faded. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
Synopsis
Jadis, commonly known as the White Witch, is the main villain of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published book in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series, and the second chronologically. Jadis also appears at length in The Magician's Nephew, which concerns her origins and the origins of Narnia. She is the Witch who froze Narnia in the Hundred Years Winter.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009722
- Title
- The White Witch
- Author
- GOUDGE Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- British Fiction Romance Drama Novel Historical Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION LITERATURE & CRITICISM;
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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.
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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