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The Elusive Grasshopper: A Lone Pine Story
by Malcolm Saville / Bertram Prance (Illust.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus/Poor
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George Newnes Limited, 1951. 1st Edition . Good Plus/Poor. 5.25 x 7.5 inches (13.5 x 19 cm). Dust jacket: Large areas of loss to front cover, spine and front flap. Creasing and wear. A photocopy of a better example of the jacket has been placed behind the original jacket. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Poor. Book: First printing. Beige buckram binding. Foxing to spine and page edges. Some marking and occasional patches of foxing to text. Two pages have tears and loss to outer margin. The sixth novel in Saville's popular Lone Pine series. Overall book condition is Good Plus. Size: 5.25 x 7.5 inches (13.5 x 19 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 248
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1206E011
- Title
- The Elusive Grasshopper: A Lone Pine Story
- Author
- Malcolm Saville / Bertram Prance (Illust.)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Newnes Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 5.25 x 7.5 inches (13.5 x 19 cm)
- Keywords
- , Childrens
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
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
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...