VG original tan cloth, blue-stamped titles, moderate shelf-wear, internally very clean throughout, in chipped DW, with (appropriately) slightly chewed top edge. There are three small chips to lower edge, and large pieces out of head & heel of spine panel. Now protected in Brodart-sleeve. Illustrated by John Andrews. An etymological fantasy. Tessa gives her governess the slip and makes her way alone into the bush. She sits on a stump full of white ants, and muses aloud that if she were as small as a white ant she could easily hide in the bush until the morning. Then strange things begin to happen. A cricket speaks to her and suggests that if she swallows fern-seed she will become as small as a white ant. Tessa swallows the fern-seed and is plunged into a magical world of little creatures. She enters a white ants' city and their learns all about their civilisation. The Magic Seeds reads like a fairy-tale, but the author, an eminent entymologist and naturalist, conveys a good deal of nature-lore through this story. Quite Scarce. N° de ref. del artículo 15449

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Título: The Magic Seeds: Tessa in Termitaria

Editorial: Sydney: New Century Press 1940 First Edition cr.8vo 169,6pp ill.

Año de publicación: 1940

Encuadernación: Hardcover

Condición: Very Good

Condición de la sobrecubierta: Fair

Edición: 1st Edition

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We are located on the Great Eastern Highway in the Central Wheatbelt town of Kellerberrin in Western Australia, 2-1/2 hours drive from Perth. We are directly opposite East Crossing Road, nestled in between the Tyre Service and the TAFE College. Public Transport is available via the Prospector & Avon Link passenger train services, or via the Goldfields Express bus service. We specialise in Collectible Paperbacks with an emphasis on Science Fiction and Crime Novels, but we also carry an extensive range of Mythology, Icelandic Sagas, Middle English Texts, Australian Exploration, Aboriginal Studies, Tolkien, Gor Books, Proto Science Fiction, Early SF Pulp Magazines and much more. Please phone first if you are contemplating dropping in, as we have other interests in town and may not be there if you don't let us know.

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