The Mystery of the Strange Messages
by Blyton, Enid
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
Item Price
CA$49.30CA$39.44
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About This Item
0 First Edition/First printing Published by Methuen, London 1957. VG clean and tight pages. No marks or inscriptions. Cloth covers are clean and bright with mild shelwear to edges of spine. Dustjacket not price clipped. Creasing, Rubbing, chipping to all edges. Loss to bottom of spine.
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- Bookseller
- Idlegeniusbooks
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008138
- Title
- The Mystery of the Strange Messages
- Author
- Blyton, Enid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
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Idlegeniusbooks
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London
About Idlegeniusbooks
We are a small trader specialising in Modern First Editions. We are also the book 'Experts' for Cashintheattic and value books for insurance and Probate.Our stock includes many signed books and Ephemera items. We also sell books on London and Architecture.
Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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