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booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since 7 March 2000
Blue cloth with dark blue lettering to spine. 288pp. b/w frontis illust. First Edition, 1st printing of the 17th book in the ever popular "Chalet School Series" In collectable condition. VG/VG (book- gift insc. in ink to ffep. Light foxing to edges of pages.Boards clean with negligible shelf wear and no bumps. Dust jacket- non price clipped- cover prive 5/-. two small closed tear of 7 and 5mm approx. to top front panel, Chip to head at rear spine fold of 12.x12mm approx (inverted right angle triangle) which takes out the upright of "L" and the apex of "A" in title. Otherwise respectable clean now in removable proprietary protective sleave. Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale. Seller Inventory # 6316
Title: LAVENDER LAUGHS in the CHALET SCHOOL
Publisher: W. & R. CHAMBERS, London / Edinburgh
Publication Date: 1943
Binding: Hard Back
Condition: VG
Dust Jacket Condition: VG
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: Caerwen Books, Forrestfield, WA, Australia
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. White Spine edition. Spine is uncreased Where possible small books will have postage reduced. Seller Inventory # 040835
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Dublin Bookbrowsers, Dublin, NONE, Ireland
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Nina K. Brinsley (illustrator). 1st Edition. 288pp. Blue cloth. Occasional rubbing cover edges. Else good. Seller Inventory # DAY1659
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint, good tight copy, spine darkened, light age spotting to page edges, portion clipped off from first blank page. Seller Inventory # 022764
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Holybourne Rare Books ABA ILAB, Alton, United Kingdom
1951 reprint t edition, lacking wrapper. Original publisher's blue cloth, navy titles to spine. pp 288, rear hinge starting, showing overall wear, dustiness to edges, foxing and offsetting, slight discolouration, white mark to spine, bumping, usual browning to pages, ink name to endpaper, otherwise still a solid example. The textblock is firm. 12847. Seller Inventory # 12847
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is aged toned. DJ with some edge wear, minor tears and light fading. Seller Inventory # 9999-99990617055
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 288p light blue cloth binding, binding is tight, spine a hint soiled, free front endpaper cleanly removed, price in ink, pages are clean, frontispiece, well preserved war standard production, first edition Language: English Weight (g): 320. Seller Inventory # 219071
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Hampstead Books, Haverfordwest, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: As described. 1st Edition. Reprint of book orig pub 1943, light wear to sky blue boards, edges tanned s are some pages, school attendance certificate & school library stamp & "B12" written in ink on ffep tho there are no other library marks, pages clean, binding tight, jacket is intact & complete but has two large closed tears top of front cover, edge wear, would grade it Good save for the tears. Grading commensurate with age of book. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day. Seller Inventory # 003014
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Peakirk Books, Heather Lawrence PBFA, Sheringham, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Hardback in d/w; Vg/P; reprint; dark green hardback cloth covers; no handwriting inside; nice clean copy; dustwrapper has tears and loss to rear; because of this, we have laid it over a colour photocopied dustwrapper to fill in the loss; ; Chalet School; Vol. 17; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Seller Inventory # 103465
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Zardoz Books, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
First Edition. Condition: vg. good to vg book solid complete clean no dw 1st 1943 W & R Chambers edition hardcover green blue boards name inside ex Tatham Collection Wiltshire Library nice copy In stock shipped from our UK warehouse. Seller Inventory # 212878
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Book Bungalow, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Nina K. Brisley (illustrator). 1st Edition. States 'First Published' 1943. Cloth unfaded and only slight rubbing to corners, some spine lean, no foxing or such, just a handful of faint freckles on fore-edge. Name on fly. Wrapper present but very ragged and chipped. All corners chipped and torn, largest chip is a 2-inch triangle. The spine top is very ragged and curled, though if you uncurl it all the title lettering is present. The front panel is missing half the words lavender and chalet. Inside flap priceclipped. Paper rubbed and moderately age darkened. Book Production War economy standard sysbol, so this is a thin (but not too thin) book. Even in the war, Chambers kept back their very best paper for Brent-Dyer printings. Seller Inventory # 018043
Quantity: 1 available