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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean and tight copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # Pb3812
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Seller Inventory # 93552
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. First U.S. Edition. VG/G+. Very nice copy. Dust Jacket is price clipped and has minor chipping to top of spine and corners. Seller Inventory # R7515
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First American Edition; vdj in mylar (price clipped); From Dust Jacket: Written for Children was first published in 1965. It was immediately recognized as not only a readable and stimulating account of the development of children's books in England but also an important critical contribution to the subject. For this revised and expanded edition, John Rowe Townsend has extended the scope of the book to cover the development of children's books in the United States and the Commonwealth, as well as other works of the imagination first published in the English language, including poetry and picture books. Account also had been taken of recent trends in the field and of important books which have appeared since the first poublication of Written for Children. A detailed bibliography and line illustrations from many of the books mentioned in the text add to the usefulness of this entertaining and informative study. ; 368 pages. Size: 8 vo; 1.5 Pouinds. Seller Inventory # 026834
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. DJ is price clipped. Seller Inventory # 112533
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Revised Edition. This is a Fine copy of the Revised Edition (originally published in 1965). This is the first thus edition . The dust jacket has been price clipped at the bottom (just a bit of the $ remains. Illustrated throughout. Seller Inventory # 040866
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Interior is excellent. Dust Jacket Condition: residue on front. Minimal wear to cover. Seller Inventory # 2208030053
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Hardcover, Fine condition. Contents are clean, umarked and tightly bound. Dustjacket is near fine with only slight sign of handling. 368 pgs. Seller Inventory # 000161
Book Description Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Light toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, one tape repair and sun fading. Seller Inventory # 9999-9996426034
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition thus (revised). Fine in a very near fine, price clipped dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 17046