Uncle and his Detective
by MARTIN, J.P
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Book. Illus. by Quentin Blake. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardback: illustrated by QUENTIN BLAKE, dj is a little dusty, slightly rubbed on the edges, short tear on top front flap fold, price clipped, yellow boards with silver lettering on spine, spine tips are slightly bumped, endpapers and foredges lightly foxed, shop label on the front flyleaf, else vg. 8vo, 172pp. This is the third of 6 'Uncle' titles. Uncle is an extremely wealthy Elephant with a B.A., living in a vast castle named 'Homeward', his favourite clothing is a purple dressing-gown and his sworn enemies are the Hatemans..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mad Hatter Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14H14
- Title
- Uncle and his Detective
- Author
- MARTIN, J.P
- Illustrator
- Quentin Blake
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Children's & Young Adult
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's;
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About the Seller
Mad Hatter Books
Biblio member since 2006
Auckland
About Mad Hatter Books
We are a home based business specialising in 2nd hand and out of print children's books.
Glossary
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...