The Muddle-headed Wombat on Holiday
by Ruth Park
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Educational Press, Australia, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Noela Young. Book Reprint. Size: Large 8vo ( 9 to 11 inches). Item Type: Book. Text body is clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine fine. Large brown marks from adhesivie tape on inside flaps and interior of dust jacket, which is in otherwise very good condition with just minor marks and wear. Moderate edgewear to boards. Body of text is in fine condition, but a preliminary page is almost fully taken up with the previous owner's name in ink along with a large gift inscription. There are also faint marks from adhesive tape on preliminary and rare pages. Illustrator: Noela Young..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shiny Owl Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44344
- Title
- The Muddle-headed Wombat on Holiday
- Author
- Ruth Park
- Illustrator
- Noela Young
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Educational Press
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Children's Fiction; Noela Young Ruth Park The Muddle-headed Wombat on Holiday
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Shiny Owl Books
Biblio member since 2006
Mona Vale, New South Wales
About Shiny Owl Books
Formerly known as Retriever Books, Dee Why we now have a bookshop in Mona Vale further up the peninsula on the Northern Beaches of SydneyOpening HoursTuesday to Friday 10.15 to 5Saturday 9.30 to 4.30Sunday & Monday closedOpen every day except New Year's Day, Australia Day, Anzac Day, Good Friday, Mother's Day, Christmas Day and Boxing DayWe have over fifty categories of books in-store, we appear to have many titles inCurrently only 8000 books are listed here. Please use the offline search service link to forward us a book title you require or just send an email.Not all online titles are held in the shop, so contact us prior to coming in to view particular titles.Up to 8 hour free parking across the road in the council car park
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- 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...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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.