vii, 196 p. 18 cm. Sound and square binding, in red, cloth-covered boards. Upper board and spine titles and illustrations in stamped white. Top edge gilt. Corners bumped. Darkening to tail of spine and bottom front corner, where jacket piece is missing. Some fading to the edges. White colouring of titles on spine has rubbed off, spine illustration less so. Offset discoloration to front endpapers. Small bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper. Inside pages and plates generally bright and clean, with a bit of fingering and two pages with shadow mark from ribbon marker (ribbon removed). Dustwrapper has large pieces gone from spine annd two corners. A few other small chips and holes. Some edge and fold tears. Front panel darkened with a sticker pull. Three stories included: Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot, and The Story of a Short Life. Illustrated with 8 full colour plates by H. M. Brock. Decorated endpapers and title page. The Queen's Treasure Series. Seller Inventory # 866

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Jackanapes and Other Tales

Publisher: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., London

Publication Date: 1913

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Illustrated by H. M. Brock

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

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Welcome to our store! Homeward Bound Books is an online bookstore, owned and operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. We specialize in children's and illustrated books and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. Please contact us to be added to our client list so that we may search for or quote on books of interest to you. If you have books to sell, let us know. If they are not in the subject areas we buy in, we will be happy to point you towards another dealer who might be interested. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.

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