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At the Back of the North Wind

At the Back of the North Wind

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At the Back of the North Wind

by MacDonald, George

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  • Hardcover
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About This Item

London: Blackie and Son circa 1900. 12mo. iv, 264, [2] pp. Decorative cloth Arts and Crafts binding. Slightly slanted binding in very good condition and bumped corners and spine ends. Foxing to edges and occasionally throughout. FFEP missing. With 4 colour plates and several attractive black-and-white in-text illustrations inside. . Good. Decorative Cloth. 1900.

Synopsis

At the Back of the North Wind is a children's book by George MacDonald. It was serialized in the children's magazine Good Words for the Young beginning in 1868 and was published in book form in 1871. It is a fantasy centered around a boy named Diamond and his adventures with the North Wind. Diamond travels together with the mysterious Lady North Wind through the nights.

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Bookseller
Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
71916
Title
At the Back of the North Wind
Author
MacDonald, George
Format/Binding
Decorative Cloth
Book Condition
Used - Good
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Blackie and Son circa 1900
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1900
Size
12mo.
Keywords
Victorian children's literature,illustrated,
Bookseller catalogs
Children's;

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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....
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
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...
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...

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