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Biggles - Secret Agent
by Johns, Capt. W. E. (illus. Alfred Sindall)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good, with clipped d/j (only fair, quite tatty with tearing and chipping); green boards clean, but a little fading at edges and
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege at Oxford University Press, 1950. reprint. hardback. Good, with clipped d/j (only fair, quite tatty with tearing and chipping); green boards clean, but a little fading at edges and bumping at head of spine; text block firm, pages clean and unmarked; owner's inscription ffep (above residue of plate?). 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). First published, in ten parts, as CASTLE SINISTER in Modern Boy, issues 78 to 87, dated 12th August 1939 to 14th October 1939; in book form in 1940.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC100169
- Title
- Biggles - Secret Agent
- Author
- Johns, Capt. W. E. (illus. Alfred Sindall)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, with clipped d/j (only fair, quite tatty with tearing and chipping); green boards clean, but a little fading at edges and
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Cumberlege at Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Pages
- 255
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, young people, WEJohns
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
Terms of Sale
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- 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...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...