Pete and the Prairie People
by Dixon, Rex
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited, London, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Jack Harman. VI, 122pp., list of illustrations. Black and white Illustrated frontispiece by Jack Harman. Within the text there are another 8 black-and-white illustrations by the same illustrator. Red coloured boards with black illustration of a Panther on a tree limb in the lower right-hand corner of the front cover, and there is black writing to the front panel and spine. The spine edges are soft and bumped and there is bumping to the book corners. Shelfwear to the lower book edges and dust marks to the top. Browning and foxing to the top paper edge and lightly to the other paper edges. Offset tanning and browning to the endpapers and faint browning to the internal pages. Illustrated dustwrapper, again by Jack Harman, with red and black writing on the front panel and red-and-white on the spine. The top corners of the dust wrapper rubbed and chipped and the lower is just rubbed. There is chipping, with loss to the top spine edge and there is chipping and decreasing to either side of the spine. A little rubbing and occasional chipping to the lower dust wrapper edges. The dust wrapper is also quite faded and rubbed, particularly the back panel. In this book "Pete Cimarron, the wild boy, makes friends with some of the Prairie People who have settled near the Wild Grass country.". When Pete is accused of rustling cattle, Pete and his new friends set out to capture the real rustles. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Jack Harman. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Fiction -- American West; fiction -- adolescent; Inventory No: 0103345. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0103345
- Title
- Pete and the Prairie People
- Author
- Dixon, Rex
- Illustrator
- Jack Harman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Young Western, Illustrated Children's Book -- Boys, Panther Library -- Series Children; Fiction -- American West; fiction -- adolescent; Jack Harman Unbranded Dixon, Rex Pete and the Prairie People
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction -- Adolescent; Fiction -- American West;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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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
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- Dustwrapper
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...