A Merry Heart
by Leslie, Joan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, London, 1934. Reprint. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Albert Morrow. 77 pages. The text is illustrated with 4 black-and-white full page illustrations by Albert Morrow. Illustrated front cover, showing two young people in a shed and an older man sitting down, and are so small illustration of the young girl on the spine. Black-and-white writing on the front panel and red and blue on the spine. The book is quite heavily rubbed and marked. Rubbing and bumping to the book corners and to the head and to the heel of the spine the paper of the board has become a little detached to the top left-hand corner of the spine. The white of the back cover has become yellow. Browning to the paper edges. Browning to the endpapers and to the internal pages as well. A children's book from the early part of the 20th century. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Albert Morrow. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; Fiction -- Vintage; fiction -- adolescent; Inventory No: 0103980. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0103980
- Title
- A Merry Heart
- Author
- Leslie, Joan
- Illustrator
- Albert Morrow
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Children's Novel -- 20th Century, Illustrated Children's Book, Albert Morrow -- Illustrator Children; Fiction -- Vintage; fiction -- adolescent; Albert Morrow Unbranded Leslie, Joan A Merry Heart
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction -- Adolescent; Fiction -- Vintage;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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