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Toys and Things
by Herbert Booth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton / Doran, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket. A series of talks to parents, teachers,young people and children on the principles associated with play-things. This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text contains minor marks and annotations. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Edges foxed and browned. Covers are slightly flecked in spots, but otherwise in sound condition. Text marked with Library stamps, but very discreetly, spine unmarked, in all other respects in very good condition throughout. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Religion & Theology; 1900-1920; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 22178. .
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Details
- Seller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 22178
- Title
- Toys and Things
- Author
- Herbert Booth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition (ex-library)
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton / Doran
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Religion & Theology; 1900-1920; Herbert Booth Toys and Things
Terms of Sale
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
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- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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