HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1944* Publisher: Haverstock Publishers Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Bright blue cloth, dark blue title to spine & face. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to top and bottome edges. VG++* Jacket condition: Black line drawn illustration on green panel to yellow dust wrapper showing father sitting in armchair reading to child. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine with small nicks at head and tail of spine. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with very light reading wear, slight marks to end papers and title page. No marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: B/w line drawings by A.H.Watson throughout some with green highlights.* Pages: 72 pp. text.* Description: A short collection of rhymes and poems by Caryl Brahms very similar in style and subject to those of A. A. Milne. The book is attractively illustrated by A.H.Watson who illustrated A. A. Milne?s book ?A Gallery of Children? & R. L. Stevenson?s ? A Child?s Garden of Verses.?* A NEAR VG+ copy with minor wear. Now in protected dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 820
Title: Curiouser and Curiouser
Author: Brahms, Caryl
Illustrator: Watson, A. H.
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG/VG++/GD
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 2nd. Edition, 1st Impression.
Publisher: haverstock publishers ltd
Place of Publication: London UK 72
Date Published: 1944-01-01

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