THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
by WYSS, JOHANN (ill Charles Folkard)
- Used
- good
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
LONDON : DENT , No date . . Good . 12MO . One of the Tales For Children From Many Lands edited by F C Tilney. Frontis and seven other colour plates by Folkard. Elaboratetly gilt decorated spine and fornt cover with pictorial paste-on. Cover somewhat worn with some soiling on rear board. Missing Front endpaper, page 26 tape repaired. Still, an attractive little book.
Synopsis
The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Neil Williams, Bookseller (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 418
- Title
- THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
- Author
- WYSS, JOHANN (ill Charles Folkard)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Publisher
- DENT
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- No date
- Pages
- 128 pp
- Keywords
- Children's and Illustrated
- Size
- 12MO
Terms of Sale
Neil Williams, Bookseller
Safe delivery guaranteed. All books returnable for any or no reason within 30 days of receipt. If misdescribed we will pay return postage.
About the Seller
Neil Williams, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2003
Victoria, British Columbia
About Neil Williams, Bookseller
We have been buying and selling on the Internet since 1992, full- time since 1998. We started as collectors of children's and illustrated books and this is still our largest specialty. We pride ourselves on the quality of our stock and our commitment to the contentment of our customers.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...