Islands
by Gant, Phyllis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0340165367
- ISBN 13
- 9780340165362
- Seller
-
Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973. Childhood is a time of islands: islands of new experience to be mapped into the puzzling totally of the adult world; secret islands of privacy to be defended from intruders; and for Roberta Gilbert there is a real island to which she is sent to live when her family is forced to split up in the jobless days of the Australian Depression. Lilac boards, gilt lettering on spine. 288pp. Gift inscription to Ffep. Exterior edges slightly foxed. DJ has top corner of front flap clipped, sunned spine, light shelfwear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- All Booked
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001430
- Title
- Islands
- Author
- Gant, Phyllis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0340165367
- ISBN 13
- 9780340165362
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Fiction Adolescent Teens Young-adult Juvenile
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children and Young Adults;
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- Gilt
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- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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