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Greyfriars Holiday Annual 1921 ("Magnet" Facsimile)
by Rchards, Frank Clifford, Martin Conquest, Owen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG++/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0703001957
- ISBN 13
- 9780703001955
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "FACSIMILE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1980 (1921)* Publisher: Howard Baker Press.* Binding and cover condition: Light green cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a running race, black & red titles to face & to slightly faded spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing a shelf price of £6.95. Some minimal shelf wear to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective jacket. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, lightly used if at all. FINE.* Illustrations: Several sepia-tone facsimile illustrations. Numerous b/w line drawn illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: Approx. 360 pp. text i pp blank at rear.* Description: The Greyfriars Holiday Annual ranks high amongst the much sought-after rare collector?s items and it is with pleasure that Howard Baker presents this new volume of the 1921 edition. This facsimile of the Greyfriars Holiday Annual 1921 contains school stories by Frank Richards, Martin Clifford & Owen Conquest, (Charles Hamilton).* A NEAR FINE facsimile copy with some minor board & cover faults reducing it to VG+.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1449
- Title
- Greyfriars Holiday Annual 1921 ("Magnet" Facsimile)
- Author
- Rchards, Frank Clifford, Martin Conquest, Owen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG++/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus?
- ISBN 10
- 0703001957
- ISBN 13
- 9780703001955
- Publisher
- Howard Baker Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 361
- Date Published
- 1980-07-24
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile Annual;
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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- Cloth
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- Crisp
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- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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