The Scout Book Club Editions - Boys of the Otter Patrol; the Scout's Book of Gardening; Scoutmaster!; Scouting Sketches; American Patrol Leaders Handbook; South with Scott; the Gentle Art of Tramping; Standing Camps
by Shewell-Cooper, W. E.; Le Breton Martin, E.; Sams, Frank; Lord Hampton; Hillcourt, William; Evans, E. R. G. R.; Graham, Stephen; Morgan, D. Francis
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Scout Book Club, 1938. 8 books in green cloth and painted top edge. A very tidy selection. Two have foxed closed edges, one is a little shaken, some have small scout group stamp to ffep, otherwise clean and tight.. Cloth. Near fine/No Jacket. 12mo.
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- Seller
- Bookcase
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 54342
- Title
- The Scout Book Club Editions - Boys of the Otter Patrol; the Scout's Book of Gardening; Scoutmaster!; Scouting Sketches; American Patrol Leaders Handbook; South with Scott; the Gentle Art of Tramping; Standing Camps
- Author
- Shewell-Cooper, W. E.; Le Breton Martin, E.; Sams, Frank; Lord Hampton; Hillcourt, William; Evans, E. R. G. R.; Graham, Stephen; Morgan, D. Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- The Scout Book Club
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
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
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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