Father Tuck's Annual
by Vredenberg, Edric (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons. Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. [256] p. 25 cm. No publication or copyright date. Worn through at corners and along edges. Ding to bottom front edge. Spine cocked. Paper covered boards are soiled and scratched. Inside, the hinges are cracked but holding. There is a moisture stain on the bottom edge affecting about 20 pages, and another on the bottom corner affecting the last 25 pages. Some finger smudges but still quite clean. Eight unsigned watercolour plates. Includes a golliwog story. Front cover illustration of children building a snowman, by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Other illustrations inside by Attwell, Hilda Cowham, M. & A. L. Bowley and others. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 192
- Title
- Father Tuck's Annual
- Author
- Vredenberg, Edric (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Raphael Tuck & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Mabel Lucie Attwell
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Annuals; Children''s - Annuals;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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...