The Boy's Book of Model-Making
by Abbey, Staton, Editor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London & Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1952. Clean blue cloth on boards. Moderate fading and rubbed patches to head & foot of spine and to front covers top and bottom margins. Edges: foxing and light soiling. Frontis: b/w glossy photograph of a man with 'This model Jet travels at around 130 m.p.h.' Few only foxings to just a few pages mostly to the margins. B/w glossy illustrations and generous drawings. Centerpiece fold-out with diagram of the Model Cabin Cruiser Marauder; present & intact with just a sprinkle fo foxing to margins or folds. Binding is VG. 223p plus adverts. Dj: faint dusting of a little soiling and rubbings. Some creases and small wear sections. Top and bottom edges missing several cms with open sections missing, albeit brown paper relined attached behind. Price-cut to front flap foot.. First Edition. Hb. VG/VG.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BOOKMARK Ltd (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044075
- Title
- The Boy's Book of Model-Making
- Author
- Abbey, Staton, Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co. Limited
- Place of Publication
- London & Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1952
- Bookseller catalogs
- Craft; Fiction > Childrens Literature;
Terms of Sale
BOOKMARK Ltd
Will reimburse cost of book, if not as described.
About the Seller
BOOKMARK Ltd
Biblio member since 2006
Auckland
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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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...