The Diamond Smugglers
by Brookes, O.M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Collins. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. 188 p. 18.5 cm. Sound and square binding in blue, cloth-covered boards. Tiny tear to the foot of the spine. Slightly darkened along the edges. Endpapers and some page edges have foxing. All pages tanned. Dustwrapper has edge wear, including chips, creases and tiny tears. Rubbed and lightly soiled overall. Price clipped. A children's adventure story set in New Zealand about a boy and his Maori friend who plan to outwit a gang of diamond smugglers. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4204
- Title
- The Diamond Smugglers
- Author
- Brookes, O.M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1965
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....