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The Rebel of St. Jim's
by Clifford, Martin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0703000160
- ISBN 13
- 9780703000163
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "HOWARD BAKER GEM VOL. 03," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1972* Publisher: Howard Baker Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Very slight bumps to lower rear corner. Minimal shelf wear at head & tail of spine and corners. No rubs, some age and fading to top & bottom edges. VG+* Jacket condition: Two-colour illustrated dust wrapper (red & blue), showing Boys & girls at a dance party. Not price clipped, showing a shelf price of £2.75. Some shelf wear to head & tail of spine. Slight age colouration overall. Now in a clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, some minimal age to prelims & top edges. VG++.* Illustrations: Several colour facsimile front pages of the Gem Magazine. Numerous b/w, line drawings & illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: Approx. 168 pp. text, in separate numbered blocks.* Description: The latest sparkling Gem volume contains several GEM issues 930-931 & 1069-1072 inclusive.* The stories are:- " Shadowed from School!," "Hunted Down,""Fool's Luck," "A Rank Outsider," "A Schoolboy's Secret," and "Righted at Last".* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st thus, with some minor cover faults in a VG protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2704
- Title
- The Rebel of St. Jim's
- Author
- Clifford, Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG+/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus?
- ISBN 10
- 0703000160
- ISBN 13
- 9780703000163
- Publisher
- Howard Baker Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 168
- Date Published
- 1972-11-13
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- VG
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- Jacket
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- Facsimile
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- 1st Thus
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- Gilt
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- Crisp
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- Edges
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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