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A Country Holiday
by Davenport Arthur
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Buxton, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton Book. Illus. by Sale Morton. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Firm Clean Copy - Bookclub Edition - Name And Address Of Previos Owner Dated 1976 On Reverse Of Half Title Page Which Has Been Clipped Top Corner. Illustrated. Ffp Has Been Removed. Cocked Spine - Pink Cloth Hard Cover With Red Titled Spine - Grubby Edges And Slight Wear. Unclipped Jacket With Edge Rubbing And Wear - Small Nicks And Rips..
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Details
- Seller
- M and P Books PBFA member
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 008340
- Title
- A Country Holiday
- Author
- Davenport Arthur
- Illustrator
- Sale Morton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- Childrens Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile Fiction;
Terms of Sale
M and P Books PBFA member
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About the Seller
M and P Books PBFA member
Biblio member since 2010
Buxton, Derbyshire
About M and P Books PBFA member
Trader dealing on internet and at local Bookfairs in the North West/Norh East and Midlands area of the U.K. General stock of 1300 internet listings. Please note that we do not receive personal callers at Mansfield without prior appointment.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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