Oxford University Press 1937. FIRST EDITION, octavo, cream cloth boards, blue lettering & illus to spine & front board, top page edges stained blue- v faded, frontispiece, 286pp, illus, VG (spine cocked, moderate bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate soiling & tanning/foxing to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, gift inscription in ink to ffep, light foxing to prelims & terminals)

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Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 304918
Title: Dimsie Intervenes
Author: BRUCE, DORITA FAIRLIE & JOHNSTON, M. D. (Illus)
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press 1937
Keywords: modern first editions children's literature fiction novels Dorita Fairlie Bruce

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FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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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....
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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