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Dimsie Moves up Again
by Bruce, Dorita Fairlie
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Poor
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Geoffrey Cumberlege, Melbourne, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good/Poor. Illustrator: H. Burns -- Cover Art. Orange coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured decoration and titles to the front panel and black titles to the backstrip. Bumping and rubbing to the backstrip edges and to the book corners. A few marks and rubs to the book panels. Browning and foxing to the text block edges and uniform browning to the internal text along with the occasional foxing spot. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. The spine is somewhat cocked. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, by H. Burns, with white coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. This dustwrapper is almost in its component parts. Chipping, with loss to the top dustwrapper corners, lower right-hand corner of the front panel and to the backstrip edges. Numerous small tears were dissociated creasing to the top dustwrapper edge and there is a few tears to the lower edge of the front dustwrapper panel. The major damage has been a tear to the rear spine gutter edge, measuring 4 inches, and there are rubs and staining and handling marks to the dustwrapper edges. Part of the Dimsie series of books about a girl at school. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). (7), 8-224 pages, last page blank.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: H. Burns -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Adolescent Fiction; Inventory No: 0110339. .
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0110339
- Title
- Dimsie Moves up Again
- Author
- Bruce, Dorita Fairlie
- Illustrator
- H. Burns -- Cover Art
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Cumberlege
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- No date
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Adolescent Fiction -- Girls, Dimsie Fiction; Adolescent Fiction; H. Burns -- Cover Art Unbranded Bruce, Dorita Fairlie Dimsie Moves up Again
- Bookseller catalogs
- adolescent fiction;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- 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...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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