The Story Of The Treasure Seekers:
Being The Adventures Of The Bastable Children In Search Of A Fortune
by E. Nesbit
with illustrations by Gordon Brown & Lewis Baumer
(T. Fisher Unwin - First Edition, 1st Printing 1899)
Asking Price: £275.00 (excl. post & packing)
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A Good First Edition, first printing copy of Edith Nesbit's classic children's adventure - being the first of the Bastables family stories.
Book Condition (Overall) - Good: Hardback, 8vo (approx 8 inches / 20.5 cm tall), xii + 296 pages with seventeen mono illustrations (including tissue-guarded frontispiece) all confirmed present in Good to Very Good condition (small patches of moderate edge soiling to the plates opposite pages 84, 161 and 254) and ten page (undated) publisher's catalogue at rear.
Moderate to significant general wear, rubbing and moisture soiling to the original green boards and spine (no internal moisture penetration, spine heavily faded with gilt lettering / illustration only faintly visible), gilt front board lettering and illustration faded but still clear and bright, securely bound (a couple instances of early internal separation but no loose pages), toning to endpapers, all text block edges gilt (a little rubbed and dulled but still very bright), no previous ownership inscriptions, occasional light paper creasing and a couple very short paper edge nicks, intermittent light (very occasionally moderate) soiling and foxing, otherwise internally very clean and clear in a Good+ condition throughout.
Total weight with packaging just under 825g.
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The Story Of The Treasure Seekers: Being The Adventures Of The Bastable Children In Search Of A Fortune by E. Nesbit with illustrations by Gordon Brown & Lewis Baumer (T. Fisher Unwin - First Edition, 1899)
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