FIVE GO ADVENTURING AGAIN
by Blyton, Enid Soper., Eileen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/VG+/GD+
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "SECOND BOOK ABOUT THE FAMOUS FIVE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint.* Impression: 13th.* Date of Publication: 1963 (1943)* Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, black title to spine and face with Blyton signature. Slight bumps to corners, no rubs, slight mark to tail of spine. Otherwise VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated paper dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 7/6d net. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to folds. Slight nibbles to head & tail of spine. Folds and spine have been reinforced with Sellotape. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Black and white pictorial end papers. Fep has ?Sabbath School? named presentation book plate. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minor reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults to text. Fore edge lightly foxed. GD+* Illustrations: B/w line drawings within text.* Pages: 192 pp. text. no additions at rear.* Description: It was the last week of the Christmas term, and all the girls at Gaylands School were looking forward to the Christmas holidays. In Kirrin Cottage ? a new tutor has been engaged to coach during the holidays and he does not get on with Timmie the dog ? falling out with George over it. The story contains mysterious directions to ?The Secret Way?, sliding doors, cupboards with false backs, moving stones, a secret passage, and stolen papers making it an exciting read from cover to cover.* A VG+ copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS reduced to GD+ by dust jacket wear.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3754
- Title
- FIVE GO ADVENTURING AGAIN
- Author
- Blyton, Enid Soper., Eileen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG+/GD+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Brockhampton Press
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 0
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Cloth
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