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Goblin Island
by Oxenham, Elsie Jeanette
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London & Glasgow; Collins, 1939., 1939. Hardcover. Reprint, undated circa 1939. Octavo. 316 pp. Colour frontispiece by G I. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good. Red cloth with silver titles and decoration to spine and upper board in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket with publisher's Herriot Library list to front flap. Cover cloth rubbed to edge with minor damp-stains to boards; spine lightly sunned. Jacket soiled to rear white panel; numerous nicks & creases. Loss to head of spine (approx 1 1/2", triangular) and smaller loss to front/rear lower edges with associated creasing; very minor loss tail of spine and corners. Foxing & staining to textblock edge; minor foxing to prelims. Sunday School prize plate to ffep dated 1940, presented to Margaret Bentham of Kirkby Stephen; original retailer's ticket above. A sound copy of the Author's first book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3846
- Title
- Goblin Island
- Author
- Oxenham, Elsie Jeanette
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- London & Glasgow; Collins, 1939.
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Children's
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About the Seller
Keel Row Books
Biblio member since 2019
Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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