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Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat

Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat

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Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat

by Bramah, Ernest

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About This Item

The Richards Press Ltd, London, 1946. Third Printing. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Poor. Yellow coloured boards with black decoration on the right hand corner of the front panel with black writing on the spine. Blue coloured tint to the top text edge. Illustrated dust wrapper, showing an elderly Oriental gentlemen against an Oriental background, with white and blue coloured titles to the front panel and blue coloured titles to the backstrip. Part of the Kai Lung series written in the 1920s and 30s, with sly humour and subtle digs. Corners of the book are bumped and frayed as are the head and the heel of the spine. Foxing has occurred to the cloth of the board, particularly noticeable in the spine. There are other marks also to the front and that panels. Browning to the paper edges as well as foxing. Original bookseller's sticker to the bottom right-hand corner of the front paste-down with foxing to the endpapers and to the pages. The dust wrapper is heavily rubbed, faded and chipped. The head and the heel of the spine have pieces missing and there is the remains of a sticker on the front panel. Dustwrapper suffers from grubby marks. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 344 pages.. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Humour. Inventory No: 0101897. .

Synopsis

Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat is a fantasy novel by Ernest Bramah. It was first published in 1928 and has been reprinted a number of times since, most notably as the sixty-fourth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in February, 1974.

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Bookseller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 AU (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #
0101897
Title
Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
Author
Bramah, Ernest
Format/Binding
Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Book Condition
Used - Good Condition
Jacket Condition
Poor
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Third Printing
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
The Richards Press Ltd
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1946
Keywords
BZDB2 Kai Lung -- Series, Adult Fantasy, 1920s Fantasy Science Fiction & Fantasy; Humour. Unbranded Bramah, Ernest Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
Bookseller catalogs
Humour;

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Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

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About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

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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Paste-down
The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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...
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Heel
The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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....
SL.
slight
Dustwrapper
Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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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