Biggles Works It Out
by Captain W. E. Johns
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1951. First Edition. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with a colour illustrated frontis and plates throughout. Heavy foxing and moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Visible water marks and dog-eared pages throughout and moderate foxing and tanning to text block edges. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have minor rubbing and visible bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible rubbing to spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1649757300ADA
- Title
- Biggles Works It Out
- Author
- Captain W. E. Johns
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Date Published
- 1951
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.