Alphabeasts
by King-Smith, Dick
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1990. Dust jacket clean and colourful with square cut out of front revealing the hoopoe bird, very small chip to foot of spine otherwise in very good condition, maroon boards with gilt spine lettering, colour picture pasted on the front, boards clean and tidy with only the lightest of edgewear to corner at foot of front board and foot of spine, pp clean and bright, illustrations bright and colourful, a very neat and tidy copy.. First Edition. Cloth Covered Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Blake, Quentin. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67792
- Title
- Alphabeasts
- Author
- King-Smith, Dick
- Illustrator
- Blake, Quentin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...