Norah of Billabong
by Bruce, Mary Grant
- Used
- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Ward Lock & Co. Limited. n.d. circa 1916. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fair-Good condition. Boards are lightly cracked at spine edges and corners are rubbed and spine is age-toned. Interior is age-toned with some scattered foxing. Gift inscription (dated 1916) to front free endpaper. Binding solid. Black & white frontispiece and 7 other black and white plates (all present)by J. Macfarlane. Has all of the criteria for 1st edition apart from 1913 date, Muir (1084) notes this variant. 224 pages. Number 3 in the Billabong series. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB320846
- Title
- Norah of Billabong
- Author
- Bruce, Mary Grant
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward Lock & Co. Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- n.d. circa 1916
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
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- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...