The Gentle Heritage.

Crompton, Frances E.

Editorial: Melborne, London; Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, [] early 1920's reprint for distribution in Australia, based on black and white frontis and on book titles in listed; pasted on coloured plates on board and jacket, green boards and tan jacket with flowered border both with different coloured Tarrant plate of the five children encountering the Bogy; 8vo; 180 pp + 12 page catalogue containing Australian authors Mary Grant Bruce and Isabel M. Peacock., 1920

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CONDITION: Very Good in Very Good Minus jacket; no names or other marks, straight, large pale stain on one page, very light foxing to edges only; in jacket with light edgewear all around, 1/4" of spine ends missing, and also a wrinkled 3/4" chip at top front edge; unclipped, blank flaps. Juvenile hardback. A sweet, amusing story about a large family of children who vow, convincingly , to be noble and good in their meetings under the table. Bogy, the blind naturalist next door, once an object of fear, becomes their mentor as they try in spurts to be gentle. "one of the most precious of the minor classics of childhood" R. L. Green. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /Margaret W. Tarrant, illustrator. N° de ref. del artículo 20716

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Título: The Gentle Heritage.

Editorial: Melborne, London; Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, [] early 1920's reprint for distribution in Australia, based on black and white frontis and on book titles in listed; pasted on coloured plates on board and jacket, green boards and tan jacket with flowered border both with different coloured Tarrant plate of the five children encountering the Bogy; 8vo; 180 pp + 12 page catalogue containing Australian authors Mary Grant Bruce and Isabel M. Peacock.

Año de publicación: 1920

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Ilustrador: /Margaret W. Tarrant, illustrator.

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"Heritage members" of Abebooks, among the first 50 or so sellers to sign up with Rick Pura who invented it to sell his wife's books from Victoria BC. We specialize in children's quality literature and picture books, and take pride in our condition and shipment standards. Over 6,000 children's titles are listed on our own webpage at www.oldchildrensbooks.com, which has many more images, additional information on our books, about 30 browse catagories, German, French, and children's reference sections, a detailed search engine, and general information and links. We also have about 1000 titles in music, especially folk or fiddle music, and a few thousand misc. titles. We have long experience with children's literature and are delighted to respond to questions about books and authors. We are happy to answer inquiries for titles, authors, topics or themes. We maintain a Looking for a (Children's) Book forum at www.oldchildrensbooks.net We observe the Antiquarian Bookman / ABAA professional guidelines on grading and returns (which too often these days are not followed) and are members of Columbia Booksellers Association.

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