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Bob Cherry's Big Bargain ("Magnet" Facsims.)
by RICHARDS, FRANK
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 070300073X
- ISBN 13
- 9780703000736
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus* Date of Publication: 1975 (1929)* Publisher: Howard Baker.* Binding and cover condition: Mid green cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs. Minor shelf wear to head and tail of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Two-colour illustrated dust wrapper showing schoolboy working on a motor-tricycle. Dark blue titles to face and to spine. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Some minimal shelf wear to head & tail of spine. In clear polythene protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright, no marks to text, some age to top & fore-edge. Minimal age to page margins, 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. 36, containing Magnet Nos 1118-1125 inclusive. Individual stories include: "Bob Cherry's Big Bargain," "The Trail of The Trike," "Chums on The Tramp," "The Mystery Of The Methuselah," "The House of Terror," "The Unseen Foe," "The Mystery Of The Grange," & "The Terror Tracked Down." * A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st thus with some minimal faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket. * Vol 36.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 374
- Title
- Bob Cherry's Big Bargain ("Magnet" Facsims.)
- Author
- RICHARDS, FRANK
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus,
- ISBN 10
- 070300073X
- ISBN 13
- 9780703000736
- Publisher
- Howard Baker Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 200
- Date Published
- 1975-08-13
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile Annual;
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About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 1st Thus
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- Fine
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
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