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Peter and His Magic Pebble
by SCHERMELE Willy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Juvenile Productions Ltd (500 gram rate) pictorial boards replicated by the dust jacket, dust jacket's fold in flaps have large sections missing, spine rubbed at head and tail, book undated but gift inscription facing title dated 1955, some minor spotting of foxing to a few page edges, approx 60pp, most with colour illustrations among the text, Peter ( a pixie?) and his interactions with various woodland anthropomorphic animals. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Willy Schermele. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010940
- Title
- Peter and His Magic Pebble
- Author
- SCHERMELE Willy
- Illustrator
- Willy Schermele
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Juvenile Productions Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Childrens Illustrated Fiction Willy Schermele Woodland folk Animals Colour Illustrated 1950s
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHILDRENS YOUNG ADULT;
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About Fortuna Books
Est 1999 e.v. and specialising in the occult, new age and metaphysics as well as religion and mythology, we also stock general fiction and non-fiction. Our shop which was upstairs in the Olympia Building, accessed via Shand's Emporium, was lost in the 2012 earthquakes, and we are currently mail order only.
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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