Italian Peepshow. by Farjeon, Eleanor

Oxford University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Ex-Library, No DJ, spine and corners repaired, edges chipped. Textblock pages, chipped, cracked and brittle, some repaired; free of markings besides library stamps. Full-page full-color as well as smaller B&W illustrations throughout.
Set in Florence, the 11 chapters alternate between stories about three children visiting Italy and imaginative bedtime stories told to them.

Oxford University Press, 1960. Pages: 96; Weight: 10.2oz; Size: 8.3" x 6.3" x 0.5". Jacket is price clipped, worn and chipped at the edges and sunned on the spine, book cover has bumped spine ends, inscription inside front cover, otherwise clean, unmarked, tight. . Illus. by Edward Ardizzone. Good. Hard Cover. . . .

1960. Hardcover. Good. 1960 Hardcover Good Ex-library Bound Picture cover No Dj has corner wear 96 pgs Text Good+ condition Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone; Published Henry Z Walck Inc. JM ISBN: B0007JVHU6

1960. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1960 Hardcover Good- Ex-library bound blue picture cover No Dj cover wear small tear top spine illustrated by Edward Ardizzone Junior fiction U5.

New York: Henry Z. Walck Inc., 1960. First Edition . Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 6" x 8 1/4. Ardizzone, Edward. 96 Pages.This is the First of the 1960 Editions. Not an ex-library. There are a couple of paste-ons to the front cover - Award Winner and Hot. There is a ¾" paste-on green and maroon ribbon on the back cover. No other defects noted to this otherwise As New book with flawless interior text pages. The dust jacket is complete with flaps and has light wear to the edges. Bridget and her Mummy and her sisters, Chloe and Nan, and her doll Gianina lived in Italy in a villa on the top of a hill above Florence. There are all kinds of stories to be told about the sunny land of Italy, with its orange trees, its carnivals and its strange food. Some are adventures that really happened to Bridget and her family, such as the trouble everyone had the week the great white oxen with their scarlet tassels did not bring the pasta up the hill. Others are stories told to the three girls at bedtime -- -how… Read More

NY:: Henry Z. Walck,. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. First edition thus. Near fine in a very good (both corners of front flap are clipped, clear tape reinforcements on verso) dust jacket. .

Oxford University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1961. 1961 Reprint. 96 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

New York: Stokes, 1926. 146pp. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles on spine and front board, full color illustration on front board. Patterned endpapers. Pages lightly and evenly toned, otherwise clean and unmarked. "Bridget and her Mummy and her sisters, Chloe and Nan, and her doll Gianina lived in Italy in a villa on the top of a hill above Florence. There are all kinds of stories to be told about the sunny land of Italy, with its orange trees, its carnivals and its strange food. Some are adventures that really happened to Bridget and her family, such as the trouble everyone had the week the great white oxen with their scarlet tassels did not bring the pasta up the hill. Others are stories told to the three girls at bedtime, such as how King Nero of Tripoli gathered pasta for the Italians from the sea and the birds and the sky. Here are eleven tales of humorous realism and poetic fantasy by Eleanor Farjeon, a well-known and gifted storyteller.". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Illus. by… Read More

1960 1st edition. Hardcover. Good. 1960 1st edition Hardcover Good+ Ex-library Library bound picture cover illustrated by Edward Ardizzone Young Adult Fiction V2Box29.