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GREYFRIARS ON SAFARI. THE MAGNET Volume no 65
by RICHARDS, FRANK
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/VG+
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus* Date of Publication: 1978 (1931)* Publisher: Howard Baker.* Binding and cover condition: Mid green cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine. Minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine, no rubs. Minimal shelf wear & slight fade to top and bottom edges. VG+* Jacket condition: Two-colour illustrated dust wrapper showing "Fit and fat for a cannibal King." Dark blue & orange titles to face, and to somewhat faded spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £5.50. Some light shelf wear to top and bottom edges with to head and tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright, no marks to text. Slight age to top and fore-edge. No tan to text or other visible faults. VG+. * Illustrations: A number of two-colour facsimile front pages & b/w line drawings within text throughout. * Pages: Approx. 256 pp. text. Separately paginated for each section. * Description: Howard Baker Magnet Volume No. 65, containing Magnet Nos 1228-1236 inclusive. Individual stories include: "The Schoolboy Lion Hunters," "Jungle Vengeance," "The Jungle Hikers," "Kidnapped in Kenya," "The man Tracker of Uganda," "The Slave Trader's Vengeance," "Whitr Slaves of The Congo," "The City of Terror," & "Saved from The Cannibals." * A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st thus with minimal cover faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket. * Magnet Vol. 65.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1472
- Title
- GREYFRIARS ON SAFARI. THE MAGNET Volume no 65
- Author
- RICHARDS, FRANK
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus,
- Publisher
- Howard Baker
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 256
- Date Published
- 1978-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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