George Newnes Limited, London, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Fair. Green coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and blue coloured titles to the back strip. The Cairstair Twins asked send to the boarding school, Greyladies, and are placed in the Lower Fourth. For one it was dreary and boring, for the other a happy event. It took a sailing adventure to turn things around. Softening, rubbing and a little fraying of the back strip edges and book corners. Rubbing and marking to the book panels with a hint of foxing also present. Cocking of the spine. Light browning and foxing of the text block edges and of the pages. The front hinge has cracked and the endpapers are somewhat foxed. The dustwrapper is in not great shape Â– please see photograph. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and back strip edges. There is a piece missing from the top left hand corner of the front panel and top right-hand corner of the rear panel. The front spine gutter hinge has strip 45 inches to the lower dustwrapper edge. Sunning and creasing of the back strip with creasing of the dustwrapper edges. Rubbing of the panels and there is some browning of the verso and slight foxing of the fold over panels. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). [6], 7 - 200 pages.. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Teens & Young Adult; Fiction -- School Stories; Britain/UK; 1940s; Children. Inventory No: 0289213. .

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Bookseller: Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0289213
Title: Give a Form a Bad Name
Author: Breary, Nancy
Format/Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Book Condition: Used - Good Condition
Jacket Condition: Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Newnes Limited
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1943
Keywords: BZDB2 Adolescent Fiction, Girls, 1940s, boarding school story, Twins Teens & Young Adult; Fiction -- School Stories; Britain/UK; 1940s; Children. Unbranded Breary, Nancy Give a Form a Bad Name
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction -- School Stories;

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General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online

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