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Manifold Pressures: Motoring Misadventures of Major Upsett
by Brockbank, Russell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Temple Press, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 64pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards; black and white illustrations throughout. Landscape 16mo. Lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Quite cocked. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Internally clean, neat, bright and tight. Dust jacket has shelf wear, loss at top front corner, 2cm closed tear at spine heel, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. Devoted to the one and only Major Upsett whose weekly appearances in the pages of the 'The Motor' over the past few years have made him a national character, cherished and chuckled over wherever motorists foregather.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015531
- Title
- Manifold Pressures: Motoring Misadventures of Major Upsett
- Author
- Brockbank, Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Temple Press
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cartoons
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About the Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent
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Based in the leafy hamlet of Chartham Hatch, just a few miles from the historic Cathedral city of Canterbury, BookAddiction offers beautiful, illustrated and collectible used books and a selection of unique works on paper.BookAddiction was established in 1999 (originally trading as The Virtual Bookshelf). We are members of the book-selling co-operation, Ibooknet, which extends the highest professional and ethical standards, and are in the process of joining the Provincial Booksellers' Fairs Association (PBFA).Follow our blog, on books and book collecting at www.bookaddictionuk.wordpress.uk or visit our website at www.bookaddiction.co.uk.We welcome inquiries about our books and endeavour to respond promptly. Please ask away, Offers always welcome.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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