A Holiday with Aunt Jessica [Sunshine Series, no 35].
by Haynes, Ambrose
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Pickering & Inglis, 1958. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), frontispiece, pages toned, slight loss corners & spine ends jacket (edge tears, light stains reverse side, sticker front flap), presentation bookplate. 91 pp. This novel for young adults by Ambrose Haynes is set in Holland. Life in Middleberg, and on the canals, is well described with three girls having an exhilarating time in the quaint land of bulbs, windmills, dykes and clogs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25496
- Title
- A Holiday with Aunt Jessica [Sunshine Series, no 35].
- Author
- Haynes, Ambrose
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pickering & Inglis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- young adults fiction, europe, netherlands, holland, collectible, collectable
- Bookseller catalogs
- YOUNG ADULTS;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
Parcels posted within Australia by Australia Post. Overseas parcels from Australia posted by Air Mail with full tracking (about 10 to 30 days delivery, but delays in post possible). Expertly wrapped. Genuine guarantee. We request extra postage for heavy books.
About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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- 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....
- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
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