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London: Collins. Good. Hardcover. 208 p. 27 cm. Sound and square binding, with paper-covered boards and cloth-backed spine, showing two boys on a motorcyle. Gift inscription on the endpaper is dated 1933. Corners are worn. Some rubbing to the edges. Spine and boards have some soil. Text block edges and preliminary pages are foxed. Inside pages have occasional foxing and soil, but are generally presentable. An assortment of boy's adventure stories by various authors, with five full colour plates, a few in black and white, and in-text drawings. May require extra postage due to weight of book. .
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- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4454
- Title
- Collins Schoolboys' Annual
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Annuals; Children''s - Annuals;
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Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...