Collins. Poor with no dust jacket. 1948. Reprint. Hardcover. Good reading copy, hardback tightly bound in grubby blue cloth with silver gilt titles, cloth is bumped at corners, spine sunned, page edges foxedSunday School prize label on the front endpaper, half title page and rear endpaper excised. 288 pages. 'Seagull library' edition .

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Bookseller: Aucott & Thomas (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 67476
Title: The Abbey girls play up
Author: Oxenham, Elsie J
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Poor with no dust jacket
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Collins
Date Published: 1948
Keywords: Elsie Jeanette Oxenham, Girls boarding school, Schoolgirl Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction / Childrens;

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Half Title: The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
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...