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THE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY
by Gaarder, Jostein
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0753802368
- ISBN 13
- 9780753802366
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1997* Publisher: Phoenix.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing girl with a lamb and nativity scene. No bumps minor rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges, corners & tail of spine. Light creases to spine & hinge. Minor creases to corners. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: A number of b/w vignettes to chapter headings.* Pages: 247 pp. text. i pp. blank at rear.* Product Description:- A young boy finds a faded, home-made Advent calendar in a bookshop. A piece of paper falls out of the first window on which is written the first part of an extraordinary story about a small girl who travels back in time to Bethlehem and the birth of Christ. Meanwhile the intertwining story of the present unfolds, and the boy finds out about the strange man who made the calendar and about a girl who disappeared on Christmas Eve 40 year ago.* This is a VG copy of the 1st./1s. with some minor cover faults.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 605
- Title
- THE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY
- Author
- Gaarder, Jostein
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0753802368
- ISBN 13
- 9780753802366
- Publisher
- Phoenix.
- Place of Publication
- London UK 248
- Date Published
- 1997-01-01
- Size
- 13 x 1.8 x 19.7 cm
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Shelf Wear
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- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- 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...
- Crisp
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