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Mystery of the Invisible Enemy, The: A Ken Holt Mystery for Boys
by Campbell, Bruce
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair to Good
- Seller
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Buttaba, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Manchester, England: World Distributors, 1959. Book. Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover with red boards and pictorial dust jacket, first UK edition, 310gms, 185 pages. A Ken Holt mystery for boys. Book is in good condition with general age-related wear and tear and moderate to heavy page discolouration/spotting throughout. Webbing around text block is beginning to loosen but is still well in tact. Inside front endpaper shows award sticker from previous owner. Boards are in good condition with only mild shelf wear. Dust jacket is in fair to good condition with moderate shelf wear, creasing and chipping to corners and edges. Dust jacket has also been price clipped, otherwise no other pre-loved markings..
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- Bookseller
- Reading Habit
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FICYA880
- Title
- Mystery of the Invisible Enemy, The: A Ken Holt Mystery for Boys
- Author
- Campbell, Bruce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair to Good
- Edition
- First UK Edition
- Publisher
- World Distributors
- Place of Publication
- Manchester, England
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Young Adult, Boys Fiction, Mystery, Juvenile Fiction, Ken Holt, Bruce Campbell
- Bookseller catalogs
- Young Adult;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Reading Habit
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About the Seller
Reading Habit
Biblio member since 2009
Buttaba, New South Wales
About Reading Habit
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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