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Tom Merry and Co.on Strike ("Gem" Facsims.) Vol. 19.
by Clifford, Martin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG++/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0703002619
- ISBN 13
- 9780703002617
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "HOWARD BAKER GEM VOL. 19," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1984* Publisher: Howard Baker Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, some very slight age and fading to lower edges. VG++* Jacket condition: Two-colour illustrated dust wrapper (red & blue-green), showing boys at fisticuffs. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Some minimal shelf wear to head of spine. Now in a clear protective wrapper. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. FINE.* Illustrations: Several colour facsimile front pages of the Gem Magazine. Numerous b/w, line drawings & illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: Approx. 196 pp. text, in separate numbered blocks. ii pp. blank at rear.* Description: A very special collection of St. Jim's stories. This in itself makes it an issue to be treasured. So we have St Jim's and Greyfriars stories all in one volume. Comprising GEM issues 1228-1532 & 1237-1238 inclusive.* The stories include:- "The Schoolboy 'Tecs," "The St. Jim's Menagerie," "Tom Merry & Coon Strike," "Tom Merry the Boy 'Tec," "The St.Jim's Speed Cops," "The Japer of St. Jim's," & "The Gunpowder Plot at St. Jim's." A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st thus, with some minor cover faults in a VG++ protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3372
- Title
- Tom Merry and Co.on Strike ("Gem" Facsims.) Vol. 19.
- Author
- Clifford, Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG++/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus?
- ISBN 10
- 0703002619
- ISBN 13
- 9780703002617
- Publisher
- Howard Baker Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK 204
- Date Published
- 1984-04-26
- Size
- 27.5 x 18.5 x 2 cm
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