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The Otterbury Incident
by LEWIS, C. Day
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Putnam, 1948. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Edward Ardizzone. Hardback: no dj but photocopied first edition dj is included, red cloth rubbed on edges, sunned on spine, corners bumped, illustrated by EDWARD ARDIZZONE, presentation plate on flyleaf, lower page edges lightly finger creased, corners slightly bumped, some light foxing, else vg copy of the first edition. 8vo, 148pp. An adaptation of the French film 'Nous les Gosses' shown in the UK as 'Us Kids'. Prize plate from the N.Z. Herald 1950 Xmas Card competition, signed by "Anne Shirley", editor "Boys and Girls".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mad Hatter Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09H228
- Title
- The Otterbury Incident
- Author
- LEWIS, C. Day
- Illustrator
- Edward Ardizzone
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Children's & Young Adult
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's;
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Auckland
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- VG
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