Johnny Purple
by John Wyllie
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Ryde, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Secker & Warburg, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Photograph of the author on rear jacket. Firmly bound brown cloth boards with a few marks and a silver title on the spine, W.H. Smith library book plate on the front paste down, no writing inside, foxing on the end papers and closed page edges. The jacket is not price clipped but has some handling wear, mostly on the corners, top edge and at the top and base of the spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ryde Bookshop Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030861
- Title
- Johnny Purple
- Author
- John Wyllie
- Illustrator
- Photograph of the author on rear jacket
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- NOVEL, FICTION
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Ryde Bookshop Limited
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Ryde Bookshop Limited
Biblio member since 2021
Ryde, Isle of Wight
About Ryde Bookshop Limited
Traditional bookshop, established since 1988, open from 9 am to 5 pm, seven days a week including bank holidays, over 100,000 books in ten rooms.
Glossary
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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.,...
- 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....
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...