Biggles in the Gobi
by JOHNS, CAPTAIN W. E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton 1953. First edition, small octavo, dark red cloth boards with black lettering to spine & black lettering & design to front board, frontispiece, 160pp, illus, VG (rubbing to boards, foxing esp to front page edges, 5cm closed tear to page 5 lower edge, 1cm portion lower corner page 64 missing) in VG- d/w (fadign & soiling esp to rear, missing portions to upper & lower spine extrems, 2x3cm missing portion to front lower centre edge, creasing to lower edge)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133947
- Title
- Biggles in the Gobi
- Author
- JOHNS, CAPTAIN W. E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton 1953
- Keywords
- first edition Captain WE Johns Biggles children's literature adventure
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