Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Geraldine Spence (illustrator). 1st ed. Illustrations (by Geraldine Spence). dj (backstrip chipped at top). 20cm. Foxing on endpapers & page edges. A children's book. OCLC also has entries for this title with William Alfred Tuplin as the author (perhaps one or the other is a pseudonym).
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. frontis, illustrations (by Geraldine Spence). 230p. dj (minor edgewear). 21cm. Light foxing on page edges. Gift inscription ("from the author" on endpaper. SIGNED (by "William Herschell") on title-page in a different hand from the endpaper inscription. A children's book. OCLC also has entries for this title with William Alfred Tuplin as the author (perhaps Herschell is a pseudonym).
HB GREY BOARDS EXTREMITIES FOXED VERY GOOD PP230 DW VERY GOOD 8V0 Illustrated by Geraldine Spence.
Published by Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1962, 1962
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 48.43
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Add to basketDust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Children's fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 230; [2]. With numerous in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Geraldine Spence. Publisher's cream cloth-effect paper, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 12/6 to front flap. With the original bookmarking ribbon. Interior faintly and infrequently foxed throughout. Spotting to edges. Some rubbing to dust-jacket, sunning to spine. Wear to jacket extremities. Very good. An adventure of the Nesbit tradition, in which five English children find themselves in the protection of the injured King of lizards.