A Prefect's Uncle
by Wodehouse, P. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Worthing and London: Henry E. Walter. Fair with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Cloth torn along top end of spine. 3/8" chip and 1/4" tears to cloth at tail of spine. 3/8" and 1/4" chips to cloth at corners of front board. Ink price and adhesive sticker mark on front board. Some staining to spine and boards. Internally good. 1/4" tear to blank margin of frontispiece. Light dampstains to margins of frontispiece. Prize label on front endpaper dated 1924. The label is for Oamaru North School [New Zealand].; "Black's Boys' Library" edition. vii, [1], 264 pages + colour frontispiece. Red cloth boards with black lettering and circular decoration on front board. Page dimensions: 185 x 120mm. "Marriott walked into the senio day-room, and, finding no one there, hurled his portmanteau down on the table with a bank." - opening sentence.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6168
- Title
- A Prefect's Uncle
- Author
- Wodehouse, P. G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Henry E. Walter
- Place of Publication
- Worthing and London
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Fair
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- Jacket
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