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Billy Bunter's Convict ("Magnet" Facsims.)
by RICHARDS, FRANK
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+ /VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0703001736
- ISBN 13
- 9780703001733
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus* Date of Publication: 1979 (1924)* Publisher: Howard Baker.* Binding and cover condition: Mid green cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Two-colour illustrated dust wrapper showing "A Shock for Billy Bunter. Dark blue & orange titles to face. Dark blue titles to badly faded spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price £4.95. Some shelf wear to top edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright, no marks to text, very slight age to top edge, no other visible faults. VG+. * Illustrations: A number of two-colour facsimile front pages & b/w line drawings within text throughout. * Pages: Approx. 200 pp. text. Separately paginated for each section. * Description: Howard Baker Magnet Volume No. 70, containing Magnet Nos 834, 1035, 1039-1041, & 1056-1057 inclusive. Individual stories include: "Coker's Brain-Wave," "The Prefect's Secret," "Billy Bunter's, Convict," "Convict Nineteen," "The Form-Master's Foe," "Billy Bunter's Bike," & "For The Honour of Greyfriars." * A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st thus with some minimal faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket. *,
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 339
- Title
- Billy Bunter's Convict ("Magnet" Facsims.)
- Author
- RICHARDS, FRANK
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+ /VG+/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus ?
- ISBN 10
- 0703001736
- ISBN 13
- 9780703001733
- Publisher
- Howard Baker Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 204
- Date Published
- 1979-07-16
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile Annual;
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- 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...
- Spine
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- Shelf Wear
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- Crisp
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- Jacket
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- Price Clipped
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- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Cloth
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