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The Adventures of Catkin and Codlin
by Gilmore, D.H., Written & Illustrated By
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Fair
- Seller
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Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
A delightful 1940s Australian children's book with charming illustrations & colour plates. Written & illustrated by D.H. Gilmore. Includes colour frontispiece, plus all 5 additional colour plates, as issued. Also with several smaller b&w illustrations throughout (some full page). HARDCOVER with DUSTJACKET. Dustjacket with wrap around artwork, also by D.H. Gilmore. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair with small tears so now in protective Mylar.
Tightly bound in original creme paper boards with bright red lettering & design to both boards & spine, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Pages are clean, unmarked and tight. Scarce title.Rare First Edition.
First edition, with "1946" to both title page & copyright page with no later reprint dates. Printed in Australia by Halstead Press
Tightly bound in original creme paper boards with bright red lettering & design to both boards & spine, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Pages are clean, unmarked and tight. Scarce title.Rare First Edition.
First edition, with "1946" to both title page & copyright page with no later reprint dates. Printed in Australia by Halstead Press
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lansdowne Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 235
- Title
- The Adventures of Catkin and Codlin
- Author
- Gilmore, D.H., Written & Illustrated By
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney.
- Date Published
- 1946
- Pages
- 53pp.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated; Children's Books; First Edition; collectible;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lansdowne Books
Biblio member since 2018
Port Fairy, Victoria
About Lansdowne Books
Lansdowne Books is an independent online store specialising in Antiquarian and Quality Secondhand books. We are based in regional Victoria and offer our collection from around the world. It is possible to collect items from Port Fairy, Victoria Australia.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
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