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PRINCE DANDE LION
by Gibbs, May
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good minus in like dust jacket.
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Sydney: Ure Smith Pty. Limited, 1953. Very good minus in like dust jacket.. First edition of a scarce Gibbs title, following Prince Dande Lion as he sets off to see the world, full of beautiful humanized flowers and anthropomorphic animals. 9.75'' x 7.25''. Original tan cloth backed green pictorial boards. Original unclipped (14/9d.) color pictorial dust jacket. Four full-page color plates with twelve full-page black and white illustrations and numerous in-text illustrations throughout. [4], 117, [3] pages. Dampstaining to rear panel of dust jacket with smaller lines of dampstain to top edge of front panel and textblock, and light chipping to spine ends of jacket. Very scarce in dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38469
- Title
- PRINCE DANDE LION
- Author
- Gibbs, May
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good minus in like dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ure Smith Pty. Limited
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Fantasy,Fairies,20th century,Australia and New Zealand,Insects
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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