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Billy Bunter & The Greyfriars Pretender ("Magnet" Facsims.)
by RICHARDS, FRANK
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0703000020
- ISBN 13
- 9780703000026
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "VINTAGE FICTION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1971* Publisher: Howard Baker Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Mid green cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear with slight fading to top and bottom edges. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a front cover of The Magnet Magazine with a masked intruder searching for Billy Bunter who has stolen a pie, black titles to spine and black with orange titles to face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £2.75. Slightly grubby. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning, no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Several colour facsimile front pages in orange and blue from the The Magnet Magazine. A number of b/w, line drawings & illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: Approx. 290 pp. text. in separate numbered blocks.* Description: Billy Bunter and The Greyfriars Pretender by Frank Richards. A new boy comes to Greyfriars: Dick Lancaster sponsored by no less a personage than the fiery, irascible Sir Hilton Popper, School Governor, who unknown to anyone is in the clutches of a moneylender. Some say Lancaster is a good egg and some that he is a rotter, a thief and a cad. Who is right? Extracts from copies of the Magnet Magazine for 1932 there are numerous stories and articles to amuse and entertain fans of Bunter and his schoolboy chums. A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st thus, with some minor faults in a VG protected dust jacket.* Magnet Vol. 7.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 324
- Title
- Billy Bunter & The Greyfriars Pretender ("Magnet" Facsims.)
- Author
- RICHARDS, FRANK
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG+/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus?
- ISBN 10
- 0703000020
- ISBN 13
- 9780703000026
- Publisher
- Howard Baker Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK 288
- Date Published
- 1971-10-25
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
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- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Facsimile
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- New
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- 1st Thus
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- VG
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