Flowering Spring
by Vipont, Elfrida
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 199 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding. Green boards. Slight fading at spine ends. Two rear fore-corners are lightly bumped. There is a previous owner's book plate on the front free endpaper and a star stamp on the rear. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustwrapper has minor edge and corner wear. It is price-clipped and the front flap has a tiny corner crease. An attractive copy overall. This is a story of the Haverard children who come into conflict with their father over their futures. A sequel to the author's "The Spring of the Year", and one of a number of books written by the author that chronicles the Quaker Haverard family. Watercolour illustrated dust jacket and pen and ink in-text drawings by Shirley Hughes. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 652
- Title
- Flowering Spring
- Author
- Vipont, Elfrida
- Illustrator
- Shirley Hughes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...