London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1934. Hardback small quarto, no jacket, good plus condition, pictorial board cover, beige cloth spine, black & white drawings (some full-page), full-page colour plates including frontispiece, edges foxed, cover fore-edge rubbed (slight loss adjacent rear cover), spine minimally faded, toned spots some pages, some edgewear. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 148 pp. This classic Blackie children's book from the 1930s is full of animal stories, and the many drawings and full-colour plates by Harry Rountree bring the stories to life. This book will keep most ages busy for many hours. (No date, but 1934, WorldCat. 148 unnumbered pages. There are 19 full-page colour plates, and 2 additional colour plates that spread over 2 full pages. All plates have text on the reverse side, so they are not stand-alone plates.).

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Bookseller: Bookhome Sydney (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 40814
Title: A Book about Animals.
Author: Rountree, Harry
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Blackie & Son
Place of Publication: London & Glasgow
Date Published: 1934
Keywords: reference, board books, childrenâ€™s, animals, nature, environment, collectible, collectable
Bookseller catalogs: YOUNG ADULTS;

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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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Worldcat: Worldcat is a collaborative effort produced by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and supported and used by 72,000 libraries...
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...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...