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THE STORY OF THE TREASURE SEEKERS
de Nesbit, E
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fair/Poor
- Librería
-
Monmouthshire, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Published by T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. 1st edition.. Hardback. Fair/Poor. Illustrated by Browne, Gordon & Baumer, Lewis. Poor condition with no wrapper. Being the adventures of the Bastable children in search of a fortune. Blue/green cloth with gilt titles and vignettes. B/w frontis and 16 other plates. 296 pages and catalogue to rear. All edges gilt. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Small line indentation to top of front cover. Looks like an unsuccessful attempt has been made to clean the covers which are now part shiny/part matt and unevenly coloured and marked. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Joints are cracked. Frontis and one other plate MISSING, a few have small ink spots to them. Some grubby margin marks. A reading copy.
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
- Stella & Rose's Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1506407
- Título
- THE STORY OF THE TREASURE SEEKERS
- Autor
- Nesbit, E
- Ilustrador
- Illustrated by Browne, Gordon & Baumer, Lewis
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fair/Poor
- Edición
- 1st edition.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Published by T. Fisher Unwin
- Fecha de publicación
- 1899
- Palabras clave
- CHILDRENS
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Monmouthshire, Aberdeen
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Edges
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- Reading Copy
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- 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...
- 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,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
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