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Garram The Hunter. A Boy of the Hill Tribes (Puffin Series PS4 first edition)
by Herbert Best
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition
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About This Item
Penguin Books/Puffin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1941. First Edition. Softcover. Fair Condition. Illustrator: Erick Berry. Herbert Best, during a dozen years spent in one of the Colonial services, became familiar with the African hills where Garram and his tribe lived and hunted." Garram, is the son of a tribal chief in the Nigerian hills. When danger threatens, he is advised by the rainmaker to leave for the good of the tribe. With his faithful hunting dog, he travels to Yelwa, where he saves the life of the Emir and becomes Captain of the Guard. 3-pages of publisher's adverts. to rear. First Puffin Story Book Edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 141 + 3 pages. Wear to spine edges & ends; front cover detached. No Dust Jacket as published. Black titles spine. illustrated by b/w. drawings. Illustrator: Erick Berry. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Children; Africa; Childrens Stories; Puffin Series; Nigeria; Children. Inventory No: 5075. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5075
- Title
- Garram The Hunter. A Boy of the Hill Tribes (Puffin Series PS4 first edition)
- Author
- Herbert Best
- Illustrator
- Erick Berry
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books/Puffin Books
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth, Middlesex
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Children/Childrens Stories/Nigeria/Africa/Puffin Series Children; Africa; Childrens Stories; Puffin Series; Nigeria; Children. Erick Berry Unbranded Herbert Best Garram The Hunter. A Boy of the Hill Tribes (Puffin Series PS4 first edition)
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
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- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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....
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