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Flower fairies of the autumn: with the nuts and berries they bring
by Barker, Cicely Mary
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair in Poor dust jacket
- Seller
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Blackie & Son Limited. Fair in Poor dust jacket. 1960. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean smaller format hardback book, beige decorated cloth with chequerboard decoration and colour picture on front cover, bumped at corners and short splits at the head of the spine, neat colouring in on half title and frontispiece. Worn dustjacket, not price clipped, (priced 3/6) creased, has 3 closed tears and minor loss at top of spine. Unpaginated [28 pages] with 24 colour plates, line illustrations in the text, blue pictorial endpapers. Undated and therefore a reprint, probably around mid 1950s .
Synopsis
This deluxe addition to the Flower Fairies classics is complete with all of Cicely Mary Barker’s original poems and illustrations. She re-creates the beauty of nature through her art and drawings from life with botanical accuracy and exquisite watercolors. Her Flower Fairies are a unique combination of naturalism and fantasy. Newly redesigned in the style of the bestselling Fairyopolis, the third pair of titles in the collectible Flower Fairies classics series is an essential background reading for all Fairyopolis fans.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53955
- Title
- Flower fairies of the autumn: with the nuts and berries they bring
- Author
- Barker, Cicely Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Poor dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son Limited
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Childrens Illustrated Fiction, Flower Fairies
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Childrens;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Aucott & Thomas
Biblio member since 2003
Ibstock, Leicestershire
About Aucott & Thomas
We have been selling books by post since 1995. Apart from our specialist interests, we carry a constantly changing stock of around 5000 fiction and non-fiction books covering a wide range of subjects. We can supply lists of stock in any particular area of interest on request. http://www.aucott.com/
Glossary
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- 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
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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