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Ramage's Prize
by Pope, Dudley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG++/GD
- ISBN 10
- 0436377314
- ISBN 13
- 9780436377310
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1974* Publisher: Alison Press, Secker & Warburg.* Binding and cover condition: Light blue cloth, gilt title & decorative vignette to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, red and yellow titles to face and yellow titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £2.50. Considerable shelf wear to spine and to head & tail, slight to top & bottom edges. Now in clear protective wrapper. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to prelims, top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: A single two-page b/w map at frontis.* Pages: 344 pp. text. i pp., blank at rear.* Description: This novel, first published in 1974, is number 5 in the Lord Ramage series, the action described (and the sequence from the first story) places this tale circa 1799. Ramage, having lost the Triton during a hurricane, finds himself on a special assignment investigating the loss of Post Office packets (that is ships!). The matter is serious enough to draw the attention of the British Cabinet. Events involve the private ventures of officers and crews of the packets, illegal but usually ignored. Ramage turns up information that requires delicate handling, the type of information that could bring down the government.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st with some minor faults in a GD protected dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2690
- Title
- Ramage's Prize
- Author
- Pope, Dudley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG++/GD
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0436377314
- ISBN 13
- 9780436377310
- Publisher
- Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 340
- Date Published
- 1974-07-08
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About Cocksparrow Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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