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Buttercup Fairy
by CAMPBELL, Barbara Mary (CAM)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG-
- Seller
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Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1946. 1st Edition, Later printing. Hardcover. VG+/VG-. 1st Edition, 2nd Impression, 18.5 x 24.7 cm paper covered boards, unpaginated (32)pp with every page illustrated in full colour. Together with original unclipped jacket priced at 5s. net. The boards have been well protected by the dust jacket and are clean and bright with a some shelfwear and rubbing to the spine tips and corners with loss of a couple of millimetres to the foot of the spine. Internally there are a couple of previous owners names on the front free endpaper, one of them blacked out. There is also a hint of toning to the free endpapers where the dust jacket does not reach and a 1cm chip from the fore edge of the rear endpaper. The dust jacket which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) has some worn. There is some slight toning to the spine and for a few centimetres onto the front and rear panels and short tears and minor loss to the corners, spine tips and edges. The front panel has a 6cm closed tear extending from the upper corner and a 2cm one extending up from the bottom edge. All in all a nice dust jacketed copy of this, difficult to find, second book written and drawn by CAM. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 202473
- Title
- Buttercup Fairy
- Author
- CAMPBELL, Barbara Mary (CAM)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG-
- Edition
- 1st Edition, Later printing
- Publisher
- John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Childrens|Fairy|Illustrated
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Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
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About the Seller
Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
Biblio member since 2020
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
About Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
Rainford & Parris Books is a small family business based on the Hertfordshire / Essex border, close to London Stansted Airport. We are full time professional bookdealers specialising mainly in Modern First Editions, Children's Books, Illustrated Books and Nineteenth Century Literature, as well as assorted fine and interesting books. When describing our books we attempt to list all significant defects to a high degree of precision, so that you can build an accurate idea of their condition. We supplement our description with images and are always happy to provide further images or information. All books are very carefully packaged in a new book-box so that they reach you in the condition described.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG+/VG-
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly less than Very Good Condition. Very...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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