The Abbey Girls at Home by Elsie J. Oxenham
- Bookseller: www.bookfarm.co.uk
(GB)
- Seller Inventory #: 003236
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine
- Jacket condition: Very Good Price Clipped
- Illustrator: Jacket Art By Varty
- Edition: Fourth Reprint of This Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Collins (seagull)
- Place: London and Glasgow
- Date published: 1951
Description
London and Glasgow: Collins (seagull), 1951. Another of this popular authors Abbey Girl Series. (The Three girls jacket) A Very clean tidy copy. One of the longer stories 276pp. Fourth Reprint of This Edition . Blue Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Price Clipped. Illus. by Jacket Art By Varty . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardback.
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
reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
12mo : An abbreviation for duodecimo, a book size describing a book which is approximately 7 by 4.5 inches.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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