Katharine L. Oldmeadow omnibus for Girls: Princess Charming -- Princess Prunella -- Princess Pat
by Oldmeadow, Katharine L
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Bibliographic Details
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Damaged
- Edition: First Edition Thusly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Collins's Clear-Type Press
- Place: London and Glasgow
- Subjects:
JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women;
Book Description
London and Glasgow: Collins's Clear-Type Press. 1.0 kg; IV, 312, 3-288, 3-310 pages, (dust jacket proclaims 912 pages). Illustrated dust jacket front panel showing girls climbing a farmyard scents and moving right to left, the spine cover shows a girl on her knees making an adjustment to a "flapper" style dress, and the rear panel shows a girl attempting to board a moving vehicle where the driver is slumped down. The vehicle is an open top, with running boards. The dust jacket is torn, chipped, battered etc. A digital image can be provided to help ascertaining the condition. The top edge of the text block is tinted read, there are traces of foxing to the front and bottom edges of the text block. The dust jacket has also been price clipped. Please note that this book will weigh more than 1 kg packed, and extra postage will be requested for delivery outside of Australia. Best guess for publication date 1920s. First Edition Thusly. Red Cloth. Very Good/Damaged. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Boarding School Stories.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book. dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book. jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book 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. Also known as the back. price clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors. chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges. 8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes. Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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