The Better Brown Stories.
by AHLBERG**, ALLAN:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 0670858943
- ISBN 13
- 9780670858941
- Seller
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PLYMOUTH., Devon, United Kingdom
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About This Item
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but an unused bookplate pasted to ffe,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj. Crisp,clean,colour pictorial artwork by Fritz Wegner illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present. Head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,clean publisher's original blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip with clean blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj, 1st edn, b/w line vignette illustrated half-title,title page,b/w line illustrated frntis,contents list/table,b/w line vignette illustrated acknowledgements + 1-96pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters,profuse b/w line illustrations by Fritz Wegner throughout the text,page's edges and the book and 4pp blanks to rear. 'THE BETTER BROWN STORIES'. A monstrous dog,a monstrous Milkman,free money,some Mysterious Men,a forgotten baby,baffled police and a bewildered town.What could be better? Fritz Wegner,born 1924,Vienna,but moved to England when he was 14.Studied at St Martin's School of Art.Since 1946,he has worked freelance as a book illustrator for British and American publishers,for magazines,and in advertising,and has developed a wiry,controlled pen line and a stylised,often humorous manner.Visiting lecturer at St Martin's School of Art. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
Synopsis
Allan Ahlberg 's many award-winning and best-selling children's stories include Peek-a-Boo!, Each Peach, Pear, Plum, The Jolly Postman, The Giant Baby , and The Better Brown Stories . He lives in England.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- rja27617
- Title
- The Better Brown Stories.
- Author
- AHLBERG**, ALLAN:
- Illustrator
- illus by Fritz Wegner**.
- Format/Binding
- UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670858943
- ISBN 13
- 9780670858941
- Publisher
- LONDON.VIKING,1995.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1996-02-01
- Keywords
- q52.CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED.UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0670858943.Children's Illustrated Fiction.Books_Allan Ahlberg.Book Illus by Fritz Wegner.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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