Calicut Lends a Hand
by DE SELINCOURT, AUBREY
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good-
- Seller
-
London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Routledge, 1946. 1st Edition. . Hardback with Dustwrapper. Good/Good-. Guy de Selincourt. Turquoise green cloth boards, 309pp. B&w illustrations. Calicut, the old seaman sails on 'Tessa'. Dw is worn at corners and ends of spine with small nicks missing at corners, 1cm loss at top of spine and closed splits at base of spine. Small ink blot to front cover dw. Book itself clean externally with a little bumping to ends of spine and corners. Inside, neat ink name and address to 1st free ep, pastedowns just starting to wrinkle. Well-thumbed but good tight copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ripping Yarns (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32539
- Title
- Calicut Lends a Hand
- Author
- DE SELINCOURT, AUBREY
- Illustrator
- Guy de Selincourt
- Format/Binding
- Hardback with Dustwrapper
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
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