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The Great Dinosaur Robbery
by Forrest, D. ; David Eliades and Robert Forrest Webb
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/Very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0340107715
- ISBN 13
- 9780340107713
- Seller
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder and Stoughton, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good +. Don Roberts. 8vo, cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Pictorial dust jacket designed by Don Roberts. Not price clipped. A scarce first edition of this British comedy classic, which was the basis for the Disney film 'One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing' starring Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes and Derek Nimmo. 'Five frightfully British children's nannies find themselves tasked with pulling off the most extraordinary theft of all time - they must steal the gigantic, 200-million-year-old skeleton of a dinosaur brontosaurus from the American Museum of Natural History…. And to hurry them along - a handful of pedantic but inefficient Chinese spies. Add to this the antics of an off-beat team from the American counter-espionage service..’
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2458
- Title
- The Great Dinosaur Robbery
- Author
- Forrest, D. ; David Eliades and Robert Forrest Webb
- Illustrator
- Don Roberts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0340107715
- ISBN 13
- 9780340107713
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- dinosaur robbery, classic british caper, crime caper, british humour
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Humour;
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Price Clipped
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