Retold by John Kennett (5 results)

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 134 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning.…

Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 106 pages. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Book has been laminated by previous owner.…

Condition: Good. 1958. No Edition Remarks. 99 pages. No dust jacket. Glazed illustrated paper covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. Presumed First Edition Thus. No stated date c1969. Presumed first edition in the Kennett Library series. [vii], 90pp., black and red frontispiece and three other full-page illustrations (two are bound in differently to the position given in the list of illustrations). This is the 30th volume in Blackie's 'The Kennett Library' series of books. The Kennett Library was a graded series of classics, retold for schools by John Kennett. This volume is a retelling of Jules Verne's famous novel, first published in French in 1864. The book is bound in the original paper covered boards with a colour illustration on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and to the boards and fading to the spine. The top of the spine is lightly bumped. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription.…

1st ed. thus pictorial boards Very Good small octavo 185pp., frontis., illusts., The Kennett Library. Superb cover art. Uncommon.