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Faber & Faber Limited, 1954. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1954. 2nd Impression. 107 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Some uncut pages throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.
The Shaggy Dog Story by Partridge, Eric - 1953
by Partridge, Eric
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The Shaggy Dog Story
by Partridge, Eric
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London: Faber, 1953 Very Good Plus First Edition, Second Printing Dedicated To Christopher Morley. Bright Blue Cloth Boards With Gold Lettering. Very Light Wear To Corners, Spine Top And Bottom. Good Spine And Binding, Crisp Clean Interior Old Penciled Price And Faint Mark Where (?) Bookplate Was Removed. One Page Has A Fingerprint In The Margin, But Generally This Book Is Very Clean And In Near New Condition. Great Very Good Minus Dust Jacket With V.H. Drummond Sketches On Coral Pink Background Enhanced With Grey-Blue Highlights. Unclipped Original Price 7S 6D. Corners Rubbed, Half Inch Tear To Front Panel In Front Of Spine.
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- Illustrator Drummond, V.H.
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition Very Good-
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Faber
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1953
- Size 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords HUMOUR BRITISH SHAGGY DOG
- Size 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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The 'Shaggy Dog' Story: Its Origin, Development And Nature (With A Few Seemly Examples)
by Eric Partridge
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The 'Shaggy Dog' Story: Its Origin, Development and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples)
by Partridge, Eric
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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London, UK: Faber & Faber, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Drummond, V H. 108pp, some black and white illustrations. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Sun-faded spine and board edges, lightly rubbed spine ends; quite cocked. Text block edges starting to tan. Endpapers foxing and tanning. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, has 1cm closed tear at spine head, light shelf wear, chipping to edges, price clipped.
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The 'Shaggy Dog' Story : Its Origin, Development and Nature (with a few seemly examples)
by Partridge, Eric
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Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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London:: Faber and Faber Ltd.. Hardback. 107pp. Illustrated by V. H. Drummond. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine is very clean but slightly faded. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. First Edition. 1954.
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The Shaggy Dog Story
by Eric Partridge
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- Hardcover
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Berkeley, California, United States
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Philisophical Library, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition, with good to very good jacket. Some foxing to paper, slight wear to jacket at corners. Illustrated by V. H. Drummond. Reprint dated 1955.
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The ʻshaggy dogʾ story;: Its origin, development, and nature (with a few seemly examples)
by Partridge, Eric
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HOUSTON, Texas, United States
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Philosophical Library, 1954-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.
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The "Shaggy Dog" Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (With a few Seemly Examples)
by Eric Partridge
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1953. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". V. H. Drummond. A smart first edition of this instructive tale from Eric Partridge, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated throughout. An instructive and entertaining work on the art of story-telling, with reference to the "Shaggy Dog" story, its origin and the ways in which it has developed and changed over time. Written by Eric Partridge, a New Zealand-British lexicographer of English slang. Illustrated by Violet Hilda Drummond, a British children's author and illustrator. Previously held in the library of Nicholas Wall, an English judge, President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice for England and Wales. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light shelf wear and chipping to the extremities. Sunning to the spine. Internally,…
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