HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. (stated).* Impression: 1st * Date of Publication: 1953 * Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode.* Binding and cover condition: Dull red cloth covered boards , gilt title to spine only. Minimal bumps, no rubs, slight age but no other visible faults. VG.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a young couple talking in the market square. Black titles to face and white to spine strip. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 14s. net. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine with chips and minor losses. Now re-inforced and in a clear un-attached protective cover. ACC.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Owners name and address to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and fairly bright with some light reading wear. End papers grubby, some staining to pages of first chapter where a leather book mark has been enclosed for a long period of time. No other marks to text. Age darkening and some marks to page edges. GD.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 448 pp. text. i pp. blank at rear.* Description: London is the background scene of this, Mr Tilsley's biggest novel. In the Spring of 1919, young Jimmy Magnall, just demobbed from the army, is after a job; and he tries the work where Herbert Commons works, in Covent Garden market. Jimmy gets the job, as he gets most things he wants, by sizing up his employer, forcing his vitality and confidence on everyone in the business.* A NEAR GD+ text copy of the 1st/1st with some age and wear reducing it to GD, in a somewhat grubby chipped and worn dust jacket, now re-inforced & in a clear un-attached protective jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10120
Title: Heaven & Herbert Common.
Author: Frank Tilsley
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - GD/VG/ACC
Jacket Condition: ACC
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition, 1st. Imp.
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode
Place of Publication: London UK.
Date Published: 1953
Pages: 449
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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