THE STARGAZER TALKS
by Lieutenant-Commander Rupert T HGould:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Geoffrey Bles London 1943 Vg (no dj, clean grey cloth with grey titles on spine, little faint spotting on spine, small pencil date Christmas 1943 on front free endpaper else all very clean and tight with no other marks) 12mo 128pp. First edition. Collection of 15 talks originally given on the radio on Children's Hour 1934-1942, on astronomy, sea serpents, the Man in the Iron Mask, Jules Verne, typewriters, the Mary Celeste and other topics. B/w illustrations.
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- Bookseller
- lobstabooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54941
- Title
- THE STARGAZER TALKS
- Author
- Lieutenant-Commander Rupert T HGould:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Bles London 1943
- Bookseller catalogs
- Media;
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About the Seller
lobstabooks
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theberton suffolk
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....