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WEE MACGREEGOR (SIGNED COPY)
by J J BELL (JOHN JOY)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
EDINBURGH: THE MORAY PRESS, 1933 Pale blue cloth boards with red titles to spine, 190 x 130 mm approx. xx + 206 pp + 2 of publisher's adverts. Frontis + 7 other full page line drawings by Cecil Orr with Hassall illustration of Wee MacGreegor to dust jacket. First Library Edition 1933 with a an introduction by the author on the story of how the book came to be written. The copy offered is warmly inscribed by the author in ink to the front free end paper. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Good (Book - slight fading to spine, dust soiling to top edge of book block, two foxing spots to fore edge, author insc. as above. Dust Jacket- rubbed to extremities with a little loss head and tail of spine - up to 5 mm approx in depth, and finger nail puncture to gutter of front panel from careless pulling from the shelf, mild general soiling, non price clipped - cover 3/6. In a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects to book or jacket).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133177
- Title
- WEE MACGREEGOR (SIGNED COPY)
- Author
- J J BELL (JOHN JOY)
- Illustrator
- CECIL ORR (J HASSALL - COVER ART)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- THE MORAY PRESS
- Place of Publication
- EDINBURGH
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Wee Macgreegor, John Joy Bell, Cecil Orr Illustrated, John Hassall Illustrated. Scotts Humour, Signed Books,
Terms of Sale
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- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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- Cloth
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
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