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Postage and packing within New Zealand is NZ$5.00 per book. New Zealand buyers can make payment by mailing a cheque made out to "Renaissance Books" to:

Renaissance Books
PO Box 335
Dunedin 9054
New Zealand

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Name: Renaissance Books
Account Number: 03 0905 0276749 00
Bank: Westpac

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Renaissance Books
PO Box 335
Dunedin 9054
New Zealand

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Account Number: 03 0905 0276749 00
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Author Name:     Andersen, Hans Christian

Title:     The Ugly Duckling

Binding:     Papered Boards

Book Condition:     Fair with no dust jacket

Edition:     First Edition

Publisher:     West Drayon, Middlesex   Porpoise Books   [1948]

Illustrator:     Illustrated by Nickless, Will

Seller ID:     002964

No date [1948]. 47, [1] pages. Illustrated papered boards. Dimensions: 8.5" high by 7" wide. Spine chipped and taped with brown paper adhesive tape. Gutters intact at endpapers. Owner's inscription. Some soiling and staining to some leaves. Some staining to rear board. 3.5" diagonal crease to corner of front free endpaper and first two leaves. These Porpoise books are alleged to have been remaindered to New Zealand after the series received poor sales in the UK. The short-lived series has since become one of the more sought after imprints from Penguin publishers. [for more information, see the article "The Mystery of the Drowning Porpoises: by Steve Hare in "Fine Books & Collections" magaine, Vol. 2 No. 6 (Nov/Dec 2004) ]. ; 8vo

Series Children's Books Illustrated Penguin Porpoi



Price = 58.75 NZD
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