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The Story of the Treasure Seekers
de Nesbit, E. (Edith); illustrations by Browne, Gordon and Baumer, Lewis
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Ver descripción
- ISBN 10
- 0811854159
- ISBN 13
- 9780811854153
- Librería
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este artículo
San Francisco: Chronicle Books LLC, 2006. First Chronicle Books Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG-; dark pink spine with white text; first Chronicle Books edition, first printing; dust jacket shows mild wear to front; some rubbing wear to rear; scratch to rear; minor dings to edges; price clipped front flap; cloth exterior clean; straight boards; text block exterior edges have minimal wear; frontispiece; tight binding; interior clean; illustrated; pp 182. 1350984. FP New Rockville Stock.
Sinopsis
From the book:This is the story of the different ways we looked for treasure, and I think when you have read it you will see that we were not lazy about the looking. There are some things I must tell before I begin to tell about the treasure-seeking, because I have read books myself, and I know how beastly it is when a story begins, "'Alas!" said Hildegarde with a deep sigh, "we must look our last on this ancestral home"'- and then some one else says something - and you don't know for pages and pages where the home is, or who Hildegarde is, or anything about it. Our ancestral home is in the Lewisham Road. It is semi-detached and has a garden, not a large one. We are the Bastables. There are six of us besides Father. Our Mother is dead, and if you think we don't care because I don't tell you much about her you only show that you do not understand people at all. Dora is the eldest. Then Oswald - and then Dicky. Oswald won the Latin prize at his preparatory school - and Dicky is good at sums. Alice and Noel are twins: they are ten, and Horace Octavius is my youngest brother. It is one of us that tells this story - but I shall not tell you which: only at the very end perhaps I will. While the story is going on you may be trying to guess, only I bet you don't. It was Oswald who first thought of looking for treasure. Oswald often thinks of very interesting things. And directly he thought of it he did not keep it to himself, as some boys would have done, but he told the others, and said -
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Detalles
- Librería
- Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1350984
- Título
- The Story of the Treasure Seekers
- Autor
- Nesbit, E. (Edith); illustrations by Browne, Gordon and Baumer, Lewis
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Chronicle Books Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0811854159
- ISBN 13
- 9780811854153
- Editorial
- Chronicle Books LLC
- Lugar de publicación
- San Francisco
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Palabras clave
- Juvenile fiction, literature; Family life, fiction, England; Great Britain, 19th century, fiction, history
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- Tight
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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....
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
