The Magic Pudding: Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff
by Lindsay, Norman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus & Robertson Limited, 1968. Jubilee Edition of 2000 Copies. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 171pp. Small quarto [25.5 cm] Orange cloth over boards with gilt stamping on the backstrip. Publisher's decorative endpapers. The boards are a bit warped. In a dust jacket with light rubbing and a couple of short closed tears to the edges. Illustrated by the author. An attractive copy of Norman Lindsay's best known children's book. It was partly written to settle an argument with his friend Bertram Stevens of The Bulletin and Art in Australia, who believed that children liked to read about fairies, whereas Lindsay maintained that they liked to read about food.
Signed by Norman Lindsay on the front free endpaper.
Signed by Norman Lindsay on the front free endpaper.
Synopsis
The Magic Pudding: Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff is an Australian children's book written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay. It is a comic fantasy, a classic of Australian children's literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61714
- Title
- The Magic Pudding: Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff
- Author
- Lindsay, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Jubilee Edition of 2000 Copies
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson Limited
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1968
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Norman Lindsay; children's books; Australia; signed; NEWYORKABAA2022; palmsprings2022; BOSTON2022; LA/SEATTLE2023
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Quarto
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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