Twenty Tales For Telling
by Clark, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/Poor
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
University of London Press Ltd, London, 1953. Reprint. Hardcover (Illustrated Boards). Good Condition/Poor. Illustrator: Nina K. Brisley. foreword by author. The text is illustrated with numerous small black-and-white drawings by Nina K. Brisley. Light green coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured illustration to the front panel and black coloured titles to back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, again by Nina K. Brisley, with black coloured titles to the front panel and blue and pink coloured titles to the back strip. As the title would suggest, 20 tales to read too young children. Softening of the back strip edges with fading to the edges, commensurate with loss of dustwrapper. Bumping to the top book corners and again fading of the cloth due to loss of dustwrapper. Uniform tanning of the text block edges and pages with some scattered foxing of the text block edges. Some foxing to the first few and last few pages of and there has been dog earing of the lower corner of the pages to page 23. The dustwrapper is in not great shape  please see photograph. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and the top and lower edge of the back strip are missing. There our pieces missing to the top left-hand corner, right-hand corner and lower central edge of the front panel. Tears with associated creasing to the top edge of the rear panel and a small pieces missing to the lower edge. Rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and panels with handling marks to the back strip and rear panel. Foxing to the verso. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 7 - 189, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Nina K. Brisley. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; Short Stories; illustrated; Fiction. Inventory No: 0126891. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0126891
- Title
- Twenty Tales For Telling
- Author
- Clark, Elizabeth
- Illustrator
- Nina K. Brisley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Illustrated Boards)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of London Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- BZDB2 short stories, children, 1950s, young children, Nina K. Brisley  Illustrator Children; Short Stories; illustrated; Fiction. Nina K. Brisley Unbranded Clark, Elizabeth Twenty Tales For Telling
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated; Short Stories;
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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