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Jim Davis
by Masefield, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good, duck-blue cloth boards, gilt spine titling (slightly soiled), text block firm (but forward lean); pages browned but unmark
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co, n.d. (?1930). reprint. hardback. Good, duck-blue cloth boards, gilt spine titling (slightly soiled), text block firm (but forward lean); pages browned but unmarked and generally clean (occasional foxing).. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Masefield's novel for children
Reviews
On Feb 16 2017, a reader said:
A Masefield adventure story par excellence. Jim Davis is memorable but for me Marah Gorsuch is the electrifying leader who lives on in my memory even seventy years after I firs read it. A corker tale.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132005
- Title
- Jim Davis
- Author
- Masefield, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, duck-blue cloth boards, gilt spine titling (slightly soiled), text block firm (but forward lean); pages browned but unmark
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Wells Gardner, Darton and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- n.d. (?1930)
- Pages
- 242
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, young people, Masefield, Poet Laureate
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
Terms of Sale
Inklings & Yarnspinners
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About the Seller
Inklings & Yarnspinners
Biblio member since 2021
Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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