FIDDLER'S QUEST
by Lynch, Patricia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus / Very Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1943. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Isobel Morton-Sale. Octavo, 8 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 309. Illustrated with color frontis and twelve ink drawings. Light blue clo;th boards with children's scene stamped in black to front. Black title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Unmarked interior. Light rubbing to dustjacket edges; small chips to base of dustjacket spine. LIght sunning to dustjacket spine. Protected in mylar. Patricia Lynch (1894-1972) was an Irish children's writer and a journalist. She is best known for blending Irish rural life and fantasy fiction... Patricia Lynch's earliest children's stories were published in the Irish Press in 1931... she wrote some fifty children's books and around two hundred short stories. (from Dictionary of Irish Biography).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87011
- Title
- FIDDLER'S QUEST
- Author
- Lynch, Patricia
- Illustrator
- Isobel Morton-Sale
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus / Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Irish stories
Terms of Sale
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Eugene, Oregon
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- Rubbing
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- E.P.
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