United Kingdom: Pilot Press. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. READING COPY - A fair hardcover in a fair unclipped dustjacket. Book is in clean, very lightly bumped orange boards, foxed to edges, lightly bumped to spine ends and corners. Internally, no writing or stamps, unmarked pages, tanned and quite foxed to the text-block edges. The dustjacket has several small closed tears - now protected in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .

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Bookseller: The Old Bookshelf (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 14715
Title: Common Man and Colonel Bogus
Author: Barsley, Michael
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair in Fair dust jacket
Publisher: Pilot Press
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
Date Published: 1944
Keywords: General Fiction, Humour
Bookseller catalogs: Humor;

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The Old Bookshelf

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The Old Bookshelf

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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute

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About The Old Bookshelf

Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
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...
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....
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...