The Dark Secret
by WESTERMAN, PERCY F
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Good+
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Blackie and Son. Hardback. Good+/Good+. Victor J. Bertoglio. Red boards with silver lettering. Price clipped dust jacket, spine and coerns bumped. Book plate to FFEP. Four full page illustrations. 251pp. Some light external foxing to outside edges of pages only. All pages clean and bright. tight. Size: 8 x 6 Inches Approx
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ripping Yarns
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31128
- Title
- The Dark Secret
- Author
- WESTERMAN, PERCY F
- Illustrator
- Victor J. Bertoglio
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie and Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- BOYS' STORIES, NAVY, SEA SCOUTS, WAR
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Ripping Yarns
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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...
- Tight
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- Jacket
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Price Clipped
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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....
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