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Crime at Christmas
by Evans, Gwyn etc
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0703000586
- ISBN 13
- 9780703000583
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "VINTAGE FICTION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1974* Publisher: Howard Baker Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Mid green cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, some shelf wear with slight fading to top and bottom edges and to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing Sexton Blake in dressing gown shaking hands with small boy, red and black titles to face and red titles to faded spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £3.00. Minimal, 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 and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning, all edges very slightly grubby, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Several colour facsimile front pages from Union Jack Magazine. A number of b/w, line drawings & illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: Approx. 190 pp. text. in separate numbered blocks.* Description: The Sexton Blake stories provided fine detective and adventure fiction to the Great British public for well over half a century. Many of these were published in Union Jack Magazine. The hero of these stories became a household name and deservedly takes his place amongst other heroes of fictional folklore. In this volume, extracts are taken from the Dec. 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, June 1925, and various Union Jack detective supplements. In addition the facsimile pages show numerous advertisements for such products as Hornby, Meccano, Hobbies magazine and Platignum Pens.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st thus, with some minor faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 808
- Title
- Crime at Christmas
- Author
- Evans, Gwyn etc
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG+/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus ?
- ISBN 10
- 0703000586
- ISBN 13
- 9780703000583
- Publisher
- Howard Baker Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 188
- Date Published
- 1974-11-18
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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