The Adventures of Antony Ant and the Earwig Pirates and Gregory Grasshopper and the Saucy Walnut [Australian Children's Classics].
by Gilmore, D. H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0207137544
- ISBN 13
- 9780207137549
- Seller
-
Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1980. Reprint ed.. Hardback quarto, no jacket, good condition, pictorial cover, colour & black & white drawings (some full-page), light toning pages, small marks & creases bottom edge some pages, spine little faded (ends little rubbed), corner tips covers little bumped, spine little loose (pages firm), some edgewear. 154 pp. This wonderful children's book by D. H. Gilmore is a delightful and imaginary world peopled with resourceful ants, earwigs, grasshoppers and a host of other colourful characters. The author / illustrator first took up his pen and paintbrush 40 years ago (1942), and this special combined edition has been reissued to delight a new generation of children.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30389
- Title
- The Adventures of Antony Ant and the Earwig Pirates and Gregory Grasshopper and the Saucy Walnut [Australian Children's Classics].
- Author
- Gilmore, D. H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0207137544
- ISBN 13
- 9780207137549
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- children's literature, nature, animals, insects, australia
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.