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THE GEM LIBRARY, CARDEW OF ST JIM'S
by CLIFFORD, FRANK RICHARDS / MARTIN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 070300008X
- ISBN 13
- 9780703000088
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "VINTAGE FICTION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1972* Publisher: Howard Baker Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, some age and fading to top & bottom edges. VG* Jacket condition: Two-colour illustrated dust wrapper (red & blue), showing a snow-ball fight. Not price clipped, showing a shelf price of £2.75. Some shelf wear with two small tears (showing sellotape marks) to top front edge and to head of spine. Now re-inforced & in a clear protective wrapper. Front lap creased. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, some slight age marks to edges. VG+.* Illustrations: Several colour facsimile front pages of the Gem Magazine. Numerous b/w, line drawings & illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: Approx. 224 pp. text. in separate numbered blocks.* Description: Another complete collection of stories in the saga of St Jim's Culled from The Gem and representing the great halcyon pre-war days of boy's papers. Featuring Ralph Reckness Cardew of St Jim's the stories are:- "Cardew The Reel," "Tom Merry's Rival," Captain Cardew," "Skipper and Slacker," "D'Arcy's Christmas Party," "The Vengeance of Cardew," "Tom Merry's Foe," and "Just Like Cardew." Comprising GEM issues 824-831 inclusive. A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st thus, with some minor cover faults in a VG protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1342
- Title
- THE GEM LIBRARY, CARDEW OF ST JIM'S
- Author
- CLIFFORD, FRANK RICHARDS / MARTIN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus?
- ISBN 10
- 070300008X
- ISBN 13
- 9780703000088
- Publisher
- Howard Baker
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 226
- Date Published
- 1972-01-01
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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