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Mystery of the Grinning Tiger, The: A Ken Holt Mystery for Boys
by Campbell, Bruce
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair to Good
- Seller
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Buttaba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Manchester, England: World Distributors, 1960. Book. Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover with red boards and pictorial dust jacket, reprint, 310gms, 185 pages. A Ken Holt mystery for boys. Book is in good condition with general age-related wear and tear and moderate to heavy page discolouration/spotting throughout. Boards are in good condition with only mild shelf wear. Dust jacket is in good condition with moderate shelf wear, creasing and chipping to corners and edges. Dust jacket is price clipped and shows a medium size tear to top of spine, otherwise no other pre-loved markings..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reading Habit
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FICYA883
- Title
- Mystery of the Grinning Tiger, The: A Ken Holt Mystery for Boys
- Author
- Campbell, Bruce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair to Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- World Distributors
- Place of Publication
- Manchester, England
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Young Adult, Boys Fiction, Mystery, Juvenile Fiction, Ken Holt, Bruce Campbell
- Bookseller catalogs
- Young Adult; Action/Adventure Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Reading Habit
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About the Seller
Reading Habit
Biblio member since 2009
Buttaba, New South Wales
About Reading Habit
Dealers in quality secondhand books, operating online and at local markets. We offer recycled book titles at up to 70% off original retail prices. We have over 30,000 books in stock.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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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