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Playing with Girls. Presented by Redmond Phillips. Drawings by Albert Tucker
by PRANG, Julian [pseudonym of Redmond PHILLIPS]
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: Reed and Harris, 1945. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Melbourne, Reed and Harris, 1945. Quarto, 44 pages with 12 full-page illustrations by Albert Tucker. Pictorial card covers (with French flaps) a little marked, tanned and foxed, with the spine a little sunned and chipped; edges discoloured; some foxing and occasional signs of use internally; a good copy. 'In this book the author has reversed the general procedure and presents a sophisticated book for adults written by a child. The fact that the child, Julian Prang, had to be invented in no way detracts from the reader's enjoyment. Rather, characters such as Julian Prang are known to all of us, even though young Julian has an over-developed literary tasted for such exotic literature as the works of the Marquis de Sade.... A word must be said about the excellent illustrations by Albert Tucker. Tucker has conceived the sadistic personality of this child prodigy in a lusty and delightful fashion, fully in keeping with the verse' (from the blurb on the front flap).
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131951
- Title
- Playing with Girls. Presented by Redmond Phillips. Drawings by Albert Tucker
- Author
- PRANG, Julian [pseudonym of Redmond PHILLIPS]
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Reed and Harris
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1945
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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- Sunned
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- Quarto
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- Blurb
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
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