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Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books, Katoomba, NSW, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since February 16, 2004
Complete with all plates. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is loose but fully intact. Spine sunned. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Deckled edges (rough cut), browned. Covers are faded in spots, but otherwise in sound condition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Indigenous Cultures; Australia; Australian Aboriginal; History. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 24198. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right. Seller Inventory # 24198
Title: The Little Black Princess: A True Tale of ...
Publisher: Alexander Moring / Melville & Mullen
Publication Date: 1905
Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Edition: First Edition.
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Spine faded and browned. Some fading to boards. Dampstains and heavy fading to margins of rear board. Front free endpaper nearly detached. Inscription dated 1909 on front endpaper: "To dear Marjorie / from Aunt Annie / Wishing her a Happy / New Year / Jany 3rd 1909". Frontispiece detached and loose.; Third printing, September 1906. viii, 107, [1 (map)], [2 (press opinions)], [2] pages + frontispiece + 24 plates. Green cloth boards with black forest and lake illustration on front board, illustrations on spine. Page dimensions: 206mm x 142mm. Title page imprint: "London / Alexander Moring Ltd. / Melbourne / Melville and Mullen. 1906". "Bett-Bett must have been a Princess, for she was a King's niece, and if that does not make a Princess of any one, it ought to do so! // She didn't sit - like fairy-book princesses - waving golden sceptres over devoted subjects, for she was just a little bush nigger girl or 'lubra,' about eight years old. She had, however, a very wonderful palace - the great lonely Australian bush." - the opening paragraphs. [Bibliographical reference: Muir 3111]. Seller Inventory # 24094
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Impression - Corners bumped and covers are heavily rubbed, faded & unevenly browned - Some silverfish damage to spine & edges of covers - Top & tail of spine slighlty frayed - Edges of text block browned - Endpapers heavily foxed - Previous owner's name & dedication in ink on front free endpaper - Book has slight musty aroma - Book ow/ solid, clean & tight - 106 pages. Seller Inventory # 616217
Quantity: 1 available