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The T C Bridges Adventure Book. Three Complete Stories: The Mystery Message, The Sky Riders, Martin Crusoe.
by Bridges, T C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; George G Harrap & Company Ltd, 1933., 1933. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. 3 novels, separately paginated. Octavo, pp [4], 254, 249, [1], 256. Original red cloth with black titles and border to spine and upper board. Top edge stained red. Unclipped black and red pictorial dust-jacket. Spine sunned and creased and cover cloth damp-stained (hidden when jacket is in place). Slight toning to endpapers, crease to rfep and very minor foxing to textblock edge; gift inscription to front pastedown: "To Arthur from Auntie Annie & Uncle Joe 1937". Contents clean and fresh. Jacket a little surface soiled with creasing to edge. Overall A Good copy with Very Good contents and jacket. Omnibus of three complete stories by prolific children's author Thomas Charles Bridges (1868-1944). Scarce, particularly in jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5591
- Title
- The T C Bridges Adventure Book. Three Complete Stories: The Mystery Message, The Sky Riders, Martin Crusoe.
- Author
- Bridges, T C
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London; George G Harrap & Company Ltd, 1933.
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Children's
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About the Seller
Keel Row Books
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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- RFEP
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