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Tom Merry's Enemy 1981 ("Gem" Facsims.)
by Clifford, Martin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0703002155
- ISBN 13
- 9780703002150
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "VINTAGE FICTION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Reprint thus.* Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: Howard Baker Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Mid green cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to top and bottom edges & to head & tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a front cover of Gem Magazine with boys playing soccer and the headline "Foul". Spine faded & dark blue titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £7.95. Very slightly grubby. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Several colour facsimile front pages in red and blue from the Gem Library. A number of b/w, line drawings & illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: Approx. 200 pp. text. in separate numbered blocks.* Description: Tom Merry's Holiday by Martin Clifford is a beguiling narratives in this volume are taken from the Gem 1934. As always, in such stories, his character studies are most convincing and intriguing. Three single stories, plus a series of four, featuring Lumley-Lumley, the 'Outsider' of St. Jim's. Featuring, "The House of Fear," "The Mystery of The Sea," "The Bully Who Wouldn't Fight," "The Outsider's Return," "When Friends Fall Out," "The Schemer of The School," & "Lumley's Last Chance". A FINE text copy of the 1st thus, with some minor faults in a VG protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3380
- Title
- Tom Merry's Enemy 1981 ("Gem" Facsims.)
- Author
- Clifford, Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG+/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0703002155
- ISBN 13
- 9780703002150
- Publisher
- Howard Baker Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 198
- Date Published
- 1981-08-24
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- Reprint
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- 1st Thus
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- Bumps
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- Facsimile
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- Tail
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- Fine
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- Edges
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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