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Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns
by JOHNS, Captain W.E
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
JOHNS, Captain W.E
Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns
The Children's Book Club (Originally Brockhamptom Press), London, 1962, hardback with dust wrapper, VG/vg, boards green/black, colour frontispiece by Leslie Stead, front panel illustrated by Lesley Wood, 184 pp.
Boards clean and firm, gentle rubs to head and tail of spine, no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean, lightly tanned. Wrapper clean and crisp, rubs to edges and corners, spine strip tanned, pale marks to back panel, price not clipped. Lovely copy.
CHILDREN'S COLLECTABLE, HARDBACK, BIGGLES ADVENTURE STORY, CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS
46775 CHILD'S COLL/J £44.50
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Details
- Seller
- Daisyroots Books Ltd
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 46775
- Title
- Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns
- Author
- JOHNS, Captain W.E
- Illustrator
- Leslie Stead
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Children's Book Club Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Children's Book Club (Originally Brockhamptom Press)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Pages
- 184 pp.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S COLLECTABLE, HARDBACK, BIGGLES ADVENTURE STORY, CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Collectable;
Terms of Sale
Daisyroots Books Ltd
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Daisyroots Books Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Grange over Sands, Cumbria
About Daisyroots Books Ltd
Daisyroots Books can be found on Main Street, right in the heart of the Edwardian seaside town of Grange over Sands. Over 20,000 books in 3 rooms on 2 floors. Antiquarian, collectable and contemporary titles. Open Mon - Sat 9:30 - 4.30 www.daisyrootsbooks.co.uk
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- 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....
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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