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Downfall of Harry Wharton (""Magnet"" Facsims.)
by RICHARDS, FRANK
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0703000004
- ISBN 13
- 9780703000002
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Howard Baker Press Ltd, 1971-09-01. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. VG/VG/VG. Box 05 HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus* Date of Publication: 1971 (1932)* Publisher: Howard Baker.* Binding and cover condition: Mid-green cloth, gilt title to spine. Heavy bumps to lower corners. Minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing Bunter spying on a group of boys having a feast, black titles to face and to somewhat faded spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £2.75. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges to lower front corner and to head of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright, no marks to text, very slight age to top & fore-edge, lower corners bumped. VG.* Illustrations: A number of two-colour facsimile front pages & b/w line drawings within text throughout.* Pages: 230 pp. text.* Description: Howard Baker Magnet Volume No. 6, containing Magnet Nos 1255-1261 inclusive and No. 1269. Individual stories include: ?The Complete Outsider,? ?Down on his Luck,? ?Harry Wharton's Downfall,? ?Bounder and Captain,? ?The Swot of the Remove.? ?The Bounder's Folly,"" ?Harry Wharton's Enemy,? & ?Truants of the Remove. * A NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st thus with some faults in a VG protected dust jacket.* Magnet Vol. 6. 0
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 986
- Title
- Downfall of Harry Wharton (""Magnet"" Facsims.)
- Author
- RICHARDS, FRANK
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/VG
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0703000004
- ISBN 13
- 9780703000002
- Publisher
- Howard Baker Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971-09-01
- Pages
- 230
- X weight
- g
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About the Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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