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Wishing Water-Gate
by Lyon, Elinor
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
Item Price
€37.65€28.24
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949. Stated First Edition. Tan cloth, green lettering on spine with green stamped illustration on front. 208pp. Colour Frontispiece plus 7 colour Plates. Spine tips are rubbed and frayed. Cloth has the outline of a dampstain on the front fore edge with spotting on spine. Previous owner's details (3 lines) in red pen on Ffep. Gutter crack to front eps, front hinge weakened. Sporadic foxing. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by The Author. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- All Booked
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001809
- Title
- Wishing Water-Gate
- Author
- Lyon, Elinor
- Illustrator
- The Author
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Juvenile Fiction Adventure Childrens
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children and Young Adults;
- Size
- 12mo
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
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