HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: (1930?s)?* Publisher: Dean & Sons.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated colour paper covered boards showing two boys on one bicycle with rods and a jam jar, blue and yellow title to face. Red cloth spine without title. Considerable bumps and minor rubs to edges and corners, some shelf wear to face. Back cover in grey board only ith some marks. GD* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Ffep removed. Clean, crisp and tight with only light reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning to interior. Some age to page margins and edges. GD+.* Illustrations: Full colour plate to frontis. A few b/w line drawings within text* Pages: 140 pp. text.* Description: Eleven adventure stories ancient and modern by different authors. First story is Margin for Error by Samual Jeans. Contributions by : F. W. Gumley, Edmund Burton, E. B. Childs and more. There are no non-fiction items and no games or quizzes.* A NEAR GD+ copy with some age & wear but no dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1681
Title: Ideal Book for Boys
Author: Morris, Samuel Jeans & Edmund Burton & W.H
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - GD+/GD/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition Thus ?
Publisher: Dean & Son Ltd
Place of Publication: London UK 140
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs: Juvenile Annual;

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
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