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Jack of All Trades (Signed and Inscribed Association copy)
by Richards, Frank
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
UK: Spring Books. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Not dated but c1950. First edition, first printing (true first). Signed and inscribed by Frank Richards, to Edith Hood, on half title page. Frank Richards was one of several pen names of Charles Hamilton. Hamilton first met Edith Hood in 1914 when he stayed in rooms above the post office in the Kent village of Hawkinge - Edith was a play friend of the post mistress's daughter but she served as his housekeeper and close confident from the early 1930s until Hamilton's death in 1961. Hood continued to live in Hamilton's cottage, Rose Lawn, in Kingsgate in Kent, for many years after his death until she moved into a nursing home in Broadstairs in 1980. Green cloth boards (a couple of mild marks and cloth rounded at spine tips) in period pictorial dust jacket (very slight rubbing at extremities, small closed nick at base). Now protected in archival quality mylar wrapper. Occasional spotting on text block edge, strip of toning on endpapers. From the author of the Billy Bunter books (who wrote under a number of pen names), the Jack Nobody series of books was introduced in 1950 as the author switched his concentration from writing for magazines to books. 0
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001074
- Title
- Jack of All Trades (Signed and Inscribed Association copy)
- Author
- Richards, Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Impression
- Publisher
- Spring Books
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Jack Nobody, signed books, charles hamilton
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nr Canterbury, Kent
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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