Billy Bunter's Blunder ("Magnet" Facsims.)
by RICHARDS, FRANK
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0703001965
- ISBN 13
- 9780703001962
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus* Date of Publication: 1980 (1924-31)* Publisher: Howard Baker Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Mid green cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine. No shelf wear or other visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Two-colour illustrated dust wrapper showing ?Caught in The Act.? Dark blue titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £5.95. No visible shelf wear to edges or to head & tail of spine. Has been in clear protective polythene wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright, no marks to text. No age or other visible faults. FINE. * Illustrations: A number of two-colour facsimile front pages & b/w line drawings within text throughout. * Pages: Approx. 196 pp. text. Separately paginated for each section. xpp. Prelims.* Description: Howard Baker Magnet Volume No. 76, containing extracts from Magnet Nos 844, 940, 1083, 1109, 1153 7 1220. Individual stories include: ?The Plundered School,? ?The Hand of an Enemy,? ?The Hidden Foe,? ?Shunned by the Form,? ?Billy Bunter's Blunder,? ?Grease-Paint Wibley.? & ?Speedway Coker.? * A FINE text copy of the 1st thus with no cover faults in a FINE protected dust jacket. *
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 337
- Title
- Billy Bunter's Blunder ("Magnet" Facsims.)
- Author
- RICHARDS, FRANK
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus.
- ISBN 10
- 0703001965
- ISBN 13
- 9780703001962
- Publisher
- Howard Baker Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- England, UK. 206
- Date Published
- 1980-08-21
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About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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