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Leslie Dexter, Cadet
by Westerman, Percy F
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Ex Library/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Ex Library/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Norman Hepple. list of illustrations. Black and white illustrated frontispiece, by Norman Hepple, who also drew the internal illustrations. Illustrated cloth covered boards with yellow titles to the front panel and backstrip. Bumping and some rubbing to the backstrip edges and book corners. Heavy rubbing to the book panels and there is a small chip to the lower left-hand corner of the backstrip. There is the remains of a sticker to the top left-hand corner of the front panel. Browning, foxing and son staying to the text block edges with light browning to the internal text. Offset tanning to the endpapers. To the top left-hand corner of the front paste-down is the name of the school the book came from, and the number of the book. The rear hinged has cracked. A book set on the high seas, a book for boys. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (8), 9- 255 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Norman Hepple. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Ships & the Sea. Inventory No: 0111623. .
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Details
- Seller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 0111623
- Title
- Leslie Dexter, Cadet
- Author
- Westerman, Percy F
- Illustrator
- Norman Hepple
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Ex Library
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son Limited
- Place of Publication
- London and Glasgow
- Date Published
- No date
- Keywords
- BZDB2 fiction, maritime, commercial shipping, adventure, boys reading, early 20th century Fiction; Ships & the Sea. Norman Hepple Unbranded Westerman, Percy F. Leslie Dexter, Cadet
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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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