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Tale of a One-Way Street: Available Copies

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Book Club edition very sinilar to first edition Small quarto hardback 127 pp colour illustrations and silhouette illustrations by Jan Pienkowski. Very Good condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket (spine area of jacket is faded) No inscriptions

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First Puffin edition Paperback. Very good. Illustrated in b/w and colour by Jan Pienkowski. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $5, so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards BEFORE the order is processed by the bookseller.

Undated Book Club edition, probably c.1979. Illustrations by Jan Pienkowski. Text clean; binding tight; dust jacket a little wrinkled. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket

First Book Club edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine slightly faded, corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 127pp, illustrated. We are taken to peculiar lands where all the magical things that only seem to happen in dreams really do happen. We meet strange creatures by going the wrong way up a one way street. We learn about what a peculiar muddle your presents can get into when your birthday cake is baked with a wishing spoon. And if you manage to save the king of grasshoppers from drowning in your soup, what wonderful rewards may come your way! A magical collection of short stories from bestselling author Joan Aiken. Joan Delano Aiken (1924-2004), was an English novelist, specialising in supernatural fiction and alternative history novels. Quite scarce even in this Book Club edition.

First published in 1978, this is a second impression of 1981. Ex library with usual stamps and defects. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine very slightly faded, corners bruised, not price clipped (£7.95), no personal inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 127pp, illustrated. We are taken to peculiar lands where all the magical things that only seem to happen in dreams really do happen. We meet strange creatures by going the wrong way up a one way street. We learn about what a peculiar muddle your presents can get into when your birthday cake is baked with a wishing spoon. And if you manage to save the king of grasshoppers from drowning in your soup, what wonderful rewards may come your way! A magical collection of short stories from bestselling author Joan Aiken. Joan Delano Aiken (1924-2004), was an English novelist, specializing in supernatural fiction and alternative history novels. Quite a scarce book.

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Original publishers dark blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Signed by Jan Pienkowski on the half title page. ISBN: 0224011588 Pages: 127 Bookplate on the first blank page, otherwise very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket, with slight fading at spine. Decent copy.