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THE STORY OF NUTTYBUB AND NITTERSING
by MAY GIBBS
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
MELBOURNE: OSBOLDSTONE, 1923 Paper covered boards with laid on colour illustration and cloth quarter binding. 250 x 185 mm approx. Illustrated end papers Colour Frontis + 19 other full page monochrome illustrations on china clay paper with numerous other line illustrations. First Edition first printing of this enduringly popular Australian Author/Illustrator's nursery book featuring the "Gumnut Babies". Good ( Moderate shelf wear and soiling to paper covered boards. Recently re cased by us with a new back strip. Ink gift ink inscription to half title page. Occasional mild finger soiling to margins with a few small marginal tears - max 1 cm approx.) Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121752
- Title
- THE STORY OF NUTTYBUB AND NITTERSING
- Author
- MAY GIBBS
- Illustrator
- AUTHOR
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- OSBOLDSTONE
- Place of Publication
- MELBOURNE
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- May Gibbs, Nuttybub and Nittersing, Nursery Books, Illustrated children's books, Gum-Nut Babies, Modern First Editions,
Terms of Sale
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