HARDBACK, ?NUMBER 14 IN THE SERIES,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Reprint.* Date of Publication: Undated (Post 1971)* Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Mottled grey paper covered boards, bright green titles to spine & face. Rectangular coloured plate laid on to board with impressed frame. Minor bumps, no rubs, minimal shelf wear to covers. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, black titles spine and face. CORNER CLIPPED but showing a shelf price of 0.35p. & 7/- net. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to jacket. Overall slightly grubby. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers showing a garland of Potter characters. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, a few slight marks to edges. VG++.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w line drawings & some colour illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 76 pp. text. i pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: The tale is about a badger called Tommy Brock and his arch enemy Mr. Tod, a fox. Brock kidnaps the children of Benjamin Bunny and his wife Flopsy, intending to eat them, and hides them in an oven in Mr. Tod?s home. Benjamin and his cousin Peter Rabbit have followed Tommy Brock in an attempt to rescue the babies. When Mr. Tod finds Brock asleep in his bed, he determines to get him out of the house. His initial attempt fails, and the two eventually come to blows. Under cover of the fight, the Benjamin and Peter rescue the baby rabbits.* A NEAR FINE text reprint copy of No 14 of this series with some absolutely minimal shelf wear, some age & minor shelf wear reducing it to VG.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 3247
Title: The Tale of Mr Tod, (Copy 3).
Author: Potter, Beatrix
Illustrator: Potter., Beatrix
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG++/VG+/VG
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Reprint 1971
ISBN 10: 0723206058
ISBN 13: 9780723206057
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.
Place of Publication: London UK 0
Date Published: 1963-01-01

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Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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....
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...