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The Day They Put Humpty Together again
by Margaret Jones
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
St Margarets Hope , Orkney, United Kingdom
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About This Item
A pleasing, bright, tight, near fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Signed and dated by author. Jacket design by Kenneth Farnhill. The humorous story of a famous painter with a disease-ridden body who is given a new lease of life when his head is grafted onto a splendidly muscular torso with an overpowering sexual drive.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boreas Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63
- Title
- The Day They Put Humpty Together again
- Author
- Margaret Jones
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Transplant Surgery humour
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Fiction; First Editions;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Boreas Books
We have a 'no quibble' returns policy. If we have failed to describe the book and its condition accurately we will refund the cost of the book and shipping in full. We accept PayPal. Our paypal e-mail is rorkney@icloud.com
About the Seller
Boreas Books
Biblio member since 2005
St Margarets Hope , Orkney
About Boreas Books
Boreas Books is an online bookstore situated in the Orkney Islands archipelago just off the north coast of Scotland. We are based in a converted water mill on the small island of South Ronaldsay. We stand at the head of Widewall Bay overlooking a seal-strewn skerry, a panorama of open water and distant scattered islands.
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- New
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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