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The Shadowy Man
by O'FAOLAIN, Eileen
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1949. Book. Illus. by Phoebe Llewellyn Smith. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardback: illustrated by PHOEBE LLEWELLYN SMITH, no dj, book is bound in green cloth with red titles and vignette on the front, a few light marks (including a price on the top front corner), spine is slightly faded and has a few small bumps and splits, corners slightly bumped, some foredge and internal foxing, small tape marks on front endpapers, front flyleaf removed, a few page edges slightly bumped, else vg. sm 4to, 120pp. In the secret fairy kingdoms of Iverleary and Muskerry live two children. This is the story of how they lost their fairy foal and their search for him. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mad Hatter Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15C142
- Title
- The Shadowy Man
- Author
- O'FAOLAIN, Eileen
- Illustrator
- Phoebe Llewellyn Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Children's & Young Adult, Ireland, Fairies
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's;
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About the Seller
Mad Hatter Books
Biblio member since 2006
Auckland
About Mad Hatter Books
We are a home based business specialising in 2nd hand and out of print children's books.
Glossary
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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....
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