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The Turps
by Runyon, Damon
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Constable & Company Limited, London, 1951. First Edition Thus. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Fair. Illustrator: Josef and Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Wilson. publisher's note. The text is illustrated by Josef and Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Wilson. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with silver coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper, same illustration as for frontispiece, with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. The life of a young married couple, Joe and Ethel Turp, as expounded by Joe in a series of letters to the author. Softening and sunning back edges with rubbing of the book corners and lower book edges. Flecking to the lower edge with sunning to the top edge of the book. Browning and slight foxing to the text block edges and age toning of the pages. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners with loss of the first and last quarter inch of the backstrip. Creasing to the dustwrapper edges with rubbing of the panels. Some holes to either side of the backstrip and this area also shows the attention of insects. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [4], 5-278, [2] pages,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Josef and Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Wilson. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; United States; Humour. Inventory No: 0118896. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0118896
- Title
- The Turps
- Author
- Runyon, Damon
- Illustrator
- Josef and Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Wilson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable & Company Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Literature, letters, correspondence, The Turps, Humour Fiction; United States; Humour. Josef and Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Wilson Unbranded Runyon, Damon The Turps
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
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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