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Strangers at the Abbey
by Oxenham, Elsie J
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London & Glasgow, UK: Collins, 1960. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 256pp, with colour plate frontispiece. In red cloth-covered boards, top edge sprayed red (cloth a little rounded at corners and spine ends). Internally a little, mild page toning. In its original, unclipped, dust jacket (lightly bumped and rubbed at edges, lightly scuffed at spine ends, mild shelf wear visible on verso, both inner flaps have a long, brown mark on them with the rear one breaching the paper). 12mo. A nice, vintage reprint of this ever popular school girl story from Oxenham's Abbey School series.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010720
- Title
- Strangers at the Abbey
- Author
- Oxenham, Elsie J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London & Glasgow, UK
- Date Published
- 1960
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- School Girl Stories, Elsie J Oxenham, Abbey School Series
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About the Seller
BookAddiction
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nr Canterbury, Kent
About BookAddiction
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
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