Midnight Adventure
by BRIGGS RAYMOND
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Leicester, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. illustrated frontispiece and title page (& numerous line drawings in text by Briggs throughout as called for). This is a Hamish Hamilton Antelope Book for young children. Publisher's original pictorial boards and matching pictorial dustwrapper by Briggs. Boards slight faded to the extremities and slightly bumped head and foot of spine otherwise a VG copy. NO INSCRIPTIONS. In the RARE VG dustwrapper priced 6s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for). The dustwrapper has a slither of loss at the head and tail of the spine and at the top right-hand corner of the front panel and is slightly darkened to the spine. The extremely scarce first book by Raymond Briggs (1934-2022), English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Rare. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355490721910
- Title
- Midnight Adventure
- Author
- BRIGGS RAYMOND
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1961
Terms of Sale
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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About the Seller
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Biblio member since 2006
Leicester
About James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...