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Tim to the Rescue
by Ardizzone, Edward
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good-
- Seller
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Newark, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, [1949]. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good-. 4to. Unpaged. Bound in illustrated boards, in matching dust jacket, Full-color and black and white illustrations by Ardizzone throughout. 'First published in 1949'' stated on copyright page, "8/6 net / Ages 5-7" printed on lower corner of front flap of dust jacket, ads for the first three books in the Tim series on the rear flap of dust jacket. This is the first post-war book in the 'Tim' series and the first to be designed in the smaller 4to format. Additionally, at the request of Oxford University Press's US department, Ardizzone changed the character of the ship's cook from a black man to a white man (Alderson p. 72). Very Good, previous owner's inscription in blue ink to front free endpaper, age-toning to pages, some soiling to margins of a few pages, bumping and rubbing to binding, in Very Good dust jacket with heavy foxing showing through from verso, chips missing from head and tail of spine as well as heads and tails of fore edges, 1" tear to lower edge of front cover, overall rubbing and age-toning.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Garnet Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002939
- Title
- Tim to the Rescue
- Author
- Ardizzone, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1949]
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED;
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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