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When We Were Very Young. By A. A. Milne with Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Twenty-First Edition.
by MILNE, A. A.: SHEPHARD, E. H:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Methuen & Co., 1930 21st edition. Hardback, 8vo. 7.5 x 5 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt panelled boards and pictorial vignette to front and rear corner, and gilt lettering to spine. Top edges gilt. Pictorial endpapers. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper. (DW spine rubbed and chipped at ends, small nick to leading corners with chip to top rear corner, some handling marks and two red spots to front leading edge. In protective sleeve.) Cover with some minor rubbing to corners, else boards bright and clean. Some minor darkening to inner edge of front endpaper and halftitle page. Leading front edge of endpaper chipped and rubbed under front flap. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 100pp. Illustrated with many B&W line drawings by E. H. Shepard.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89318
- Title
- When We Were Very Young. By A. A. Milne with Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Twenty-First Edition.
- Author
- MILNE, A. A.: SHEPHARD, E. H:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Methuen & Co., 1930 21st edition
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books Illustrated Books, Milne, shephard, Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, When We Were Very Young, childrens, dustwrapper, 1930, 21st, Twenty-First Edition, very good, dustwrapper, jacket, wrapper,
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Tight
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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