The Pixie O. Harris Fairy Book: Stories and Verse
by Yardley, Lynette; Lawton, Eva; Cock, Gwen M. and Harris, Pixie O
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(Adelaide: Rigby: no date) First Edition. Muir 5488. Wrappers with vivid coloured pictorial pastedown on front plus pp. 63 (260 x 206 mm). Richly illustrated in Colour, Wash and Line by Pixie O. Harris, including two full-page tipped-in coloured plates. Gift inscription dated December 1930 on verso of front wrapper. Corner crease to tipped-in frontispiece; ten of the line drawings are neatly coloured-in; spine neatly reinforced on the inside, otherwise very good in like dust-jacket which is rubbed and splitting at its spine and front flap fold.
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Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Verso
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- 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....
- First Edition
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