London: Oxford University Press. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 168 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding. Green boards. Some fading at spine ends. Minor wear to corners. Top edge of text block is foxed. Bottom edge has a small stain. Front free endpaper has been removed. Otherwise, inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dust wrapper has edge wear, including a few short closed tears, and some shallow chipping. Some paper loss at spine ends. Spine appears a bit faded. Rear white panel has some rubbing and soiling. The story of a twelve year old girl named Patty who lives in a Welsh town and gets involved in a royal visit and a mystery from the past. .

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Bookseller: Homeward Bound Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 656
Title: Underground Alley
Author: Mayne, William
Illustrator: Marcia Lane Foster
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1958
Bookseller catalogs: Children's;

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Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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....
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....
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...
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...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.