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MAKUTU.

by DAVIS, TOM & LYDIA:

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UK,slim 12mo wraps,p/back 1st edn.FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price removal (2/6) to cover.Really bright, crisp,sharp-cornered,glossy monochrome photographic illustrated front cover with red+white lettering,a black spine/backstrip with white letters,publisher logo and A18 to foot of same,spine without reading creases,rear cover yellow background with story precis and critic's review in black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners,no nicks,splits or tears or any external loss present.Top+fore-edges ubiquitously toned - as usual/normal and as these 'pulps' are all prone to - but without any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean with negligible page-edge toning,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Book without any lean or cocking.UK,slim 12mo wraps,p/back 1st edn,7- 224pp [paginated] includes 19 chapters,plus [unpaginated - i.e. unnumbered] half-title with story precis,title page,Pts 1-3 comprising 6,6 and 8 chapters respectively.
A passionate and exciting story of life on a Pacific island - MAKUTU will hold you in its spell.
Makutu - 'Island magic which wishes an enemy to death'. To the island of Fenua Lei comes a narrow-minded New England spinster.To her the beautiful South Sea island means disease, superstition and immorality.Her ways were not the ways of the Polynesians.And when she started to investigate Fenua Lei's most sacred shrine,the wrath of the islanders struck like a South Seas hurricane.Miss Frobisher was cursed with Makutu,the spell that means death.
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Bookseller
R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
rja882820
Title
MAKUTU.
Author
DAVIS, TOM & LYDIA:
Book Condition
Used - FINE-.
Jacket Condition
No dw/dj,p/back - as issued.
Quantity Available
1
Edition
UK,slim 12mo wraps,p/back 1st edn.
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
LONDON.MAYFLOWER BOOKS LTD.,1961.
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
q52.PAPER COLLECTABLES & EPHEMERA.UK,12mo wraps,p/back, 1st edn.No ISBN.South Sea island fiction.Polynesian_South Sea_superstition_spells.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.

Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Biblio member since 2009
PLYMOUTH., Devon

About R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.

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