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London: Guilford Press Limited, 1947. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The pages are in good condition with some scattered foxing spots. There is heavy foxing on the end papers. The cover has some light edge wear, some foxing spots and a small burn mark on the front. The dust jacket has foxing, some soiling, a few small edge tears and a small burn spot on the front. Children. Poetry about some interesting animals..
Some Queer Animals and Why by MORTIMER, Charles - 1947
by MORTIMER, Charles
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Some Queer Animals and Why
by MORTIMER, Charles
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London: Guilford Press Limited, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Pictorial paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 48pp. Full-page partly-colored illustrations. Very good/very good.Mild jacket edgewear. A tight, handsome first edition of this slim gathering of animal poems, each poem concerning one animal and run alongside a charming and unusual color lithograph of that animal.
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- Publisher Guilford Press Limited
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1947
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Some Queer Animals and Why
by Mortimer, Charles
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Osseo, Wisconsin, United States
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Some Queer Animals and Why
by Mortimer, Charles
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Arden, Ontario, Canada
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London: Guilford Press, 1947. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Author. Some verse on some odd animals...and beautiful coloured lithography too. A near fine book with minor shelf wear in a very good dust jacket that lightly soiled with some edge wear.
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Some Queer Animals and Why.
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London: Guilford Press, 1947 First edition. HB. Pictorial paper-covered boards and similar dustjacket. 48pp, small quarto. With beautiful colour lithographs of various unusual animals, and poems opposite. The ilustrations are presumably by the author, though this is not stated. Light edgewear. Jacket has small losses to corners and lower spine end, and very light handling marks. A Very Good+ copy in Very Good dust jacket.
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