HARDBACK, ?NUMBER 15 IN THE SERIES,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Reprint.* Date of Publication: Undated (1969) Publishers? code: 987.869* Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Mottled pale green colour paper covered boards, mid-green titles to spine & face. Rectangular coloured plate laid on to board with an impressed frame. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal age and wear to lower edges. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated paper dust wrapper, black titles to spine and face. End paper clipped but showing a publishers shelf price label of 0.35p. net. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to jacket. Overall minimal age. Now in clear protective jacket. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers showing a garland of Potter characters. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. A few slight marks to top-edge. FINE.* Illustrations: Several colour illustrations and a number of black and white illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 94 pp. text. i pp blank at rear.* Description: Aunt Pettitoes, an old sow, can no longer cope with her eight trouble-making offspring and thus makes them leave home, with the exception of a well-behaved sow named Spot. After various adventures involving policemen and untrustworthy farmers Pigling Bland and his new sow friend, Pig-wig, escape across the county border and, we assume, live happily ever after. A FINE text reprint copy of No 15 in this series with minimal age & jacket faults reducing it to VG++ now in a clear protective jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 3252
Title: The tale of Pigling Bland
Author: Potter, Beatrix
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - F/F/F
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Reprint 1969
Publisher: Warne.
Place of Publication: London UK 95
Date Published: 1969-08-01

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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....
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"...
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Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...