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Tom Merry's Best
by Clifford, Martin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0703001612
- ISBN 13
- 9780703001610
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "FACSIMILE GEM VOLUME NO: 8," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1979* Publisher: Howard Baker Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Mid green cloth, gilt title to spine. Bumps to front corners, no rubs, minimal shelf wear with slight fading to top and bottom edges & to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing the front cover of a Gem Magazine with boys discovering treasure in a chest, red & blue titles to face and pink titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £4.95. Very slightly grubby. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges & to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight age to page margins and edges, no other visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: Several colour facsimile front pages in red and blue from the Gem Magazines. A number of b/w, line drawings & illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 224 pp. text. in separate numbered blocks.* Description: Tom Merry's Best by Martin Clifford contains a further selection of Gems of the mid thirties. The titles of individual stories include "The Plot Against Tom Merry," "D'Arcy the 'Tec," "The Kidnapped Headmaster," "St. Jim's On The Warpath," "Getting Even With Ratty," Tom Merry's Great Jape," "Clue To A Fortune," and "The Treasure of Santa Maria." They are taken from Gem issues 1443, 1447, 1464, 1451, 1458, 1467, 1469, 1470. A NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st thus, with some minor faults in a VG protected dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3376
- Title
- Tom Merry's Best
- Author
- Clifford, Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus ?
- ISBN 10
- 0703001612
- ISBN 13
- 9780703001610
- Publisher
- Howard Baker Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 224
- Date Published
- 1979-03-12
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Glossary
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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