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A FLAT IRON FOR A FARTHING OR SOME PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF AN ONLY SON
by JULIANA HORATIA EWING , M.V.WHEELHOUSE
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, 1908 Blue Buckram Book cloth boards with white blocked titles/decs. 180 x 135 mm approx.Top edge gilt, xii + 236 pp. Blue end papers with line illustrations, coloured frontis with captioned guard + 7 other colour plates and guards + line illustrated title page. First Printing 1908 of the Wheelhouse illustrated edition by George Bell in their Queen's Treasures Series. A charming classic children's book full of Victorian sentiment and values. VG (Book- white blocked titles and decs to spine worn and cloth sunned. Discreet original bookseller label to front paste down B.Diver & Son Cambridge, This book belongs to - blank. Hint of foxing to half title and a little soiling to front guard.No other defects and binding sound with no cracks to end papers). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125699
- Title
- A FLAT IRON FOR A FARTHING OR SOME PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF AN ONLY SON
- Author
- JULIANA HORATIA EWING , M.V.WHEELHOUSE
- Illustrator
- M.V.WHEELHOUSE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ediition Thus
- Publisher
- GEORGE BELL & SONS
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- A Flat Iron for a Farthing, Juliana Horatia Ewing, M V Wheelhouse Illustrator, Children's Books, Victorian Children's Books, Books on line Brighton,
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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- VG
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Spine
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