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Helpful Penny (Acorn Books, No. 5)
by Haynes, Ambrose
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, UK: Victory Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Jones, Greta (cover art). 88pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards; yellow and white titles on front, black titles on spine. 12mo. Spine head lightly bumped. Front bottom corner lightly rubbed and rounded. Text block edges lightly foxed, top edge starting to get dusty. Presentation plate on front free endpaper, light foxing on rear endpapers. Internally very neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear along edges and folds, very light chipping at corners and spine ends, sun-fading around spine, price clipped; interior lightly tanned and foxed along spine. Children's story book.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016329
- Title
- Helpful Penny (Acorn Books, No. 5)
- Author
- Haynes, Ambrose
- Illustrator
- Jones, Greta (cover art)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Victory Press
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
BookAddiction
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nr Canterbury, Kent
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Based in the leafy hamlet of Chartham Hatch, just a few miles from the historic Cathedral city of Canterbury, BookAddiction offers beautiful, illustrated and collectible used books and a selection of unique works on paper.BookAddiction was established in 1999 (originally trading as The Virtual Bookshelf). We are members of the book-selling co-operation, Ibooknet, which extends the highest professional and ethical standards, and are in the process of joining the Provincial Booksellers' Fairs Association (PBFA).Follow our blog, on books and book collecting at www.bookaddictionuk.wordpress.uk or visit our website at www.bookaddiction.co.uk.We welcome inquiries about our books and endeavour to respond promptly. Please ask away, Offers always welcome.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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