Cherrill of the Yard - the Autobiography of the Ex-Chief Superintendent of the Fingerprint Bureau, New Scotland Yard by Fred Cherrill - 1955

The Popular Book Club, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 264 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscription to title page. Notable creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Some crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. White marks and scratches to boards. Textblock is shaky.

The Popular Book Club, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Good. 264 pages. Yellow and blue patterned dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are in good condition with a firm binding. Endpapers and page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Tanning to spine and edges.

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1954. Reprint. 248 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Notable scuffing to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing and tearing to spine ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild water staining to front panel. Moderate tanning to spine. Light rubbing and marking all over. Pen to rear panel.

Harrap, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1954. Reprinted. 248 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photographs. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Prize plate to front pastedown. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with large tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine.

Hardcover. Very Good.

Harrap, 1954. First Edition. hardcover. Acceptable/No dust jacket. 8x6x1. No dust jacket. 1954 first edition. Fading to spine. Inscription on endpaper otherwise pages are clean. Binding sound.

The Popular Book Club, 1955. Hardback. Good. First Popular Book Club edition hardback, 1955, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - blue cloth boards tanned to spine with cup-ring to front board. Internally clean. Binding tight; no annotation or inscriptions; tanning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

London, Toronto, Wellington & Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co., 1954. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded with slight fraying to the spine ends and corners, age-spotted on the verso. Boards a little mottled. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. The contents complete, clean and tight.. Hardback in dust wrapper (red boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8½” x 5½” (0.9 kg); 248pp; Index; 3rd impression, first published the same year. Includes: Black & white photographs on individual leaves; Frontispiece; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #197679|| Condition:

Published by Harrap, 1954. Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Foxing. Some mottling bottom boards. Very clean interior. Dust Jacket: Good. Moderate edgewear. .

Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Undated but believe 1909; very nice illustrations on cover and spine with some gilt on the title. Contents very clean, pencil inscription on inside cover. Boards in very good condition with very little wear. Box 23