ALL ABOUT THE BULLERBY CHILDREN by Astrid Lindgren
- Bookseller: Jackson Wegren
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 000423
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: NF
- Jacket condition: VG
- Edition: First Edition, First Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Methuen
- Place: London
- Date published: 1970
Description
London: Methuen, 1970. Near fine with bumping to one corner and lower board edges, in a very good unclipped dust jacket with three neatly closed tears, two small spots of rubbing to back panel, and trace of wear to front panel corners. Illustrated endpapers, line drawings, colour plates and pictorial jacket by Ilon Wikland. The omnibus edition of stories previously published seperately. A collectable copy of a scarce title. Dust jacket is mylar-protected.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. NF/VG. Royal Octavo.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. 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 cut into eight pages.
bumping : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
Closed tears : Tears in which no material has been lost.
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