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AN ILLUSTRATED COMIC ALPHABET
by AMELIA FRANCES HOWARD-GIBBON
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS , 1967 Green cloth boards with gilt blocked titles, 250 x 195 mm approx. Un-paginated [32pp] First Edition thus 1967. Facsimile reprint - first published 1859. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ Near Fine (Book- slight fading to head and tail of spine, No previous owner name or insc. a little soiling to top edge of book block. Dust Jacket negligible shelf wear or rubbing, non price clipped cover -18s6d, supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other defects to book or jacket).
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 129420
- Title
- AN ILLUSTRATED COMIC ALPHABET
- Author
- AMELIA FRANCES HOWARD-GIBBON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- An Illustrated Comic Alphabet, Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon, Osborne Collection of Childrens Books, Toronto, Tom Thumbs' Alphabet, A was an Archer and shot a frog, Judith St John,
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Rubbing
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Price Clipped
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- 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....
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