Calling Bulldog Drummond
by Fairlie, Gerard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Good in Fair dust jacket. (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Spotting to page edges. Slight spine lean. 1 1/2" x 3/4" chip at head of dust wrapper spine. 1 1/2" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. 3/4" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. Rubbing and tears along front fold of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 255 pages. Papered boards. Page dimensions: 183mm x 117mm. "Londoners are beginning to feel cheated by their fogs. While Metropolitan policemen have, by common consent, remained wonderful, Metropolitan fogs have not." - the opening sentences. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10293
- Title
- Calling Bulldog Drummond
- Author
- Fairlie, Gerard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1951)
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...