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About My Father's Business
by Beckwith, Lillian; Illustrated By Douglas Hall
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0091077907
- ISBN 13
- 9780091077907
- Seller
-
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hutchinson, 1971. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The interior of the book is crisp and fresh, with no signatures, marks or signs of wear. The blue covers have small bumps to the top and bottom of the spine, but almost no wear else. The dust jacket is not price-clipped, and is also in excellent condtion. It has very light wear along the edges, but no tears or problems. The jacket is now in a protective mylar cover. Synopsis: "In this charming new volume of autobiography, Miss Beckwith takes us back to the years between the wars when her father ran a grocer's shop in Cheshire...
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Details
- Bookseller
- Granny Goose Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002302
- Title
- About My Father's Business
- Author
- Beckwith, Lillian; Illustrated By Douglas Hall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0091077907
- ISBN 13
- 9780091077907
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Biography, Autobiography, Writers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non-fiction (Adult); Biography;
Terms of Sale
Granny Goose Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Granny Goose Books
Biblio member since 2008
Ottawa, Ontario
About Granny Goose Books
Used and collectable children's books.
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
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