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Midshipman Quinn and Denise the Spy (CLEARANCE)
by Showell Styles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
-
Tyrone, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Vanguard Press, New York. First Edition, First Printing. 1961 VG+/VG 182 Pages. Black cloth boards, square corners, spine lightly bumped. Solid binding, slight slant. Clean pages, slight tanning of top edges. Unclipped clean and bright dust jacket, 4cm closed tear at top of front, tiny chip on rear. Liquidating a private collection. Total of 39 Showell Styles titles must go.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books for Boys
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1079
- Title
- Midshipman Quinn and Denise the Spy (CLEARANCE)
- Author
- Showell Styles
- Format/Binding
- Clean and solid
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Vanguard Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Books for Boys
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
Books for Boys
Biblio member since 2019
Tyrone, Georgia
About Books for Boys
Old book lover selling some of the books I love.
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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...
- VG+/VG
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- Spine
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- New
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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