The Wonder Book of Tell Me Why
by [???]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
United Kingdom: Ward Lock & Co. Limited. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. A Good Plus hardcover in a Fair dustjacket. Book is in illustrated boards featuring children watching television, rubbed to bottom of front board, with cloth spine, well-bumped to ends. Internally, owner's inscription to ffep, otherwise clean pages. Colour frontispiece, B&W photographs and drawings. The fragile, price-clipped dustjacket is rubbed to all edges, with 1/2 cm loss to spine heel and 1 cm loss to spine head, and large cut loss to upper front panel - now protected in removable archival sleeve and looking quite smart. A nice, tight copy. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; Wonder Book Series; B&W Photographs .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13882
- Title
- The Wonder Book of Tell Me Why
- Author
- [???]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- Ward Lock & Co. Limited
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Children's Reference
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science; Juv Reference;
Terms of Sale
The Old Bookshelf
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About the Seller
The Old Bookshelf
Biblio member since 2005
Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute
About The Old Bookshelf
Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....