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Moran Chambers Smiled (Bip Pares Jacket)
by Oppenheim, E Phillips
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1933. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Bip Pares . First edition third printing from 1933 (originally issued in 1932). Hardback book is tight clean and square. Boards clean with single bumped foreedge corner, small amount of gentle fading to the top 3mm of boards. Text block clean, with surprisingly gentle toning to top and bottom edges, more pronounced ont he fore edge. Feels gently read. Minor bump to foot of spine, faded head of spine corresponding to jacket loss. Pages clean and white, a touch of offset toning, and single small spot to FEP. Solid very good condition book. Scarce Bip Pares illustrated jacket has minor closed tears with associated creases to upper and lower edges. Spine gently sunned with rubs, and loss to head. Some rubs to fore edge corners and edges. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a worthy addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A solid very good example of this collectible H&S 2/- Yellow Jacket title, taking in to consideration it's age and that the scarce jacket is present this would be a nice addition to a collection.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Durdles Books (IOBA)
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003517
- Title
- Moran Chambers Smiled (Bip Pares Jacket)
- Author
- Oppenheim, E Phillips
- Illustrator
- Bip Pares
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 3rd Printing
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
- Pages
- 318
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 1.54 lbs
- Keywords
- Crime & Caper
- Bookseller catalogs
- Thiller and Crime;
Terms of Sale
Durdles Books (IOBA)
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About the Seller
Durdles Books (IOBA)
Biblio member since 2018
Birmingham, West Midlands
About Durdles Books (IOBA)
Durdles Books is an online bookshop that specialises in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Modern Firsts and Genre Fiction. We also have books in many other categories and think our stock is both varied and interesting. We are constantly busy sourcing new stock in great condition, as collectors ourselves we appreciate that there is nothing like finding a lovely copy of a book that is on "the list". We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), so you can be assured of our commitment to good bookselling practices and customer service.
Glossary
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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...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
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