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Tom, My Peacock
by Pitt, Frances
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Arrowsmith, 1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pitt, Frances. 126pp, 15pp black and white photographic plates (including frontispiece), many by the author. Blue cloth-covered boards, red titles on front and spine. Bumped spine ends and bottom corners. Heavily mottled and faded covers. Text block edges starting to fox. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, baring occasional spotting. No dust jacket. 12mo. Being the adventures of General Thomas Peacock, his rival Black Joe and of his son Young Tom. Frances Pitt was a Shropshire-born naturalist, whose writings were often based on her personal experiences with and observations of the animals around her,
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013035
- Title
- Tom, My Peacock
- Author
- Pitt, Frances
- Illustrator
- Pitt, Frances
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Arrowsmith
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Pets, Animals
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About the Seller
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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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