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Calling Mr. Callaghan 1st UK Edition
by Cheyney, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- G-VG in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper
- Seller
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Camira, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London: Todd Publishing, 1953. 1st UK Edition. hardbound. G-VG in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. sm 8vo. Collection of twelve short stories by Peter Cheyney being a collection of Slim Callaghan mysteries; Todd Publishing (sole British distributors George G. Harrap); stated 'First Published in this Edition October 1953'; small bookshop label to front pastedown, heavy tanning to endpapers, prelims and text block, and edges of pages throughout, boards lightly rubbed, o.w. G-VG throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and lightly rubbed, price clipped, minor loss to head of spine.
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- Bookseller
- Gotcha By The Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22882
- Title
- Calling Mr. Callaghan 1st UK Edition
- Author
- Cheyney, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - G-VG in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper
- Jacket Condition
- Dustwrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Todd Publishing
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Pages
- 191pp
- Size
- sm 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Gotcha By The Books
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Camira, Queensland
About Gotcha By The Books
Gotcha By The Books is an online bookshop, working from home, in Camira, Queensland, Australia. The owner has been selling books in Brisbane since 1985, and Gotcha By The Books has been online since 2001. We specialize in Poetry, Australian Poetry, Literature, Art, Australiana, Aboriginal Australia, Rare and Antiquarian Books. We buy books on any subject (so long as we know we can re-sell them!). We are open by appointment.
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- Dustwrapper
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- Text Block
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- 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....
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