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Operation Seabird
by EDWARDS, Monica
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus/Good Minus
- Seller
-
Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1957. Red cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 256pp; map endpapers; b/w ills. Light bumping and sunning to spine ends; very slight lean to spine; light tanning and ocasional foxing/marking to pages. Unclipped dustwrapper (10s 6d net) has significant rubbing, creasing, nicking and chipping to edges with a couple of larger tears and small losses; spine ends are rather ragged with light marking to rear panel. Another Romney Marsh adventure, in which Tamzin and Rissa form the Seabirds Rescue League.[1219: E2]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Good Minus. Illus. by WHITTAM, Geoffrey.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jenny Wren Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014257
- Title
- Operation Seabird
- Author
- EDWARDS, Monica
- Illustrator
- WHITTAM, Geoffrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Good Minus
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jenny Wren Books
Biblio member since 2017
Maidstone, Kent
About Jenny Wren Books
We specialise in secondhand and collectable children's books and related items. We are a member of the IOBA (Independent Online Booksellers Association) so you can be confident in buying from us. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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