Two-thumbs: The Story of a Koala.
by Rees, Leslie; Senior, Margaret (illustrator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: John Sands / Ure Smith, 1968. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), pictorial cover, full-page colour drawings, illustrated endpapers, spine ends bumped, minimal foxing few pages, light foxing & toning reverse side jacket (spine ends lightly scuffed, light foxing flaps), few tiny dents bottom edge, some edgewear. 43 pp. John Sands / Ure Smith edition, by Leslie Rees (about 1968). A wonderful classic children's picture story about Australia's favourite native animal, and how important it is that koalas are cared for. Two-Thumbs is named as koalas have opposable fingers so they can secure a better grip on his high gum-tree branches, thus making up for the curious lack of a proper tail. (No date, about 1968. Decimal price on jacket flap, later than 1966 printing. Originally published 1953.).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30633
- Title
- Two-thumbs: The Story of a Koala.
- Author
- Rees, Leslie; Senior, Margaret (illustrator)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Sands / Ure Smith
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- children's literature, nature, animals, koalas, australia, collectible, collectable
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
Parcels posted within Australia by Australia Post. Overseas parcels from Australia posted by Air Mail with full tracking (about 10 to 30 days delivery, but delays in post possible). Expertly wrapped. Genuine guarantee. We request extra postage for heavy books.
About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....