THE TALKING MIRROR and other Tales of Magical Adventure
by Gladwin, Andrew
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(London: Ward Lock: 1949) First Edition. Quarter cloth pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 128 (254 x 191 mm) Illustrated by Geoffrey Squire including eight handsome colour plates and eight other plates, all additional to the pagination. First Edition. Gift inscription of recto of the frontispiece. A little rubbing to the corners and to the lower edges of the boards otherwise a fine bright copy in near complete but worn price-clipped dust-jacket.
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About the Seller
exPB
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Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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- Edges
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- Fine
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- Recto
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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