The Rubadub Mystery
by Blyton, Enid
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Collins. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1952). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription dated 1953 on front endpaper. A couple of 15mm tears at head of dust-jacket spine. Rubbing to corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. 256 pages. Red boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 181 x 119mm. Children's mystery novel. " A seasisde holiday at a queer old inn near a Hush-Hush Bay. Strange and unusual guests at the inn - old Professor James, Miss Twitt, Mr. Marvel the Conjurer, the Funny Man; Signals at night; a strange whirlpool in the rocks; disapperances!" - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24012
- Title
- The Rubadub Mystery
- Author
- Blyton, Enid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1952)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- 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....
- 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...