Tom Merry's Best by Clifford, Martin - 1979-03-12

HARDBACK, "FACSIMILE GEM VOLUME NO: 8," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1979* Publisher: Howard Baker Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Mid green cloth, gilt title to spine. Bumps to front corners, no rubs, minimal shelf wear with slight fading to top and bottom edges & to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing the front cover of a Gem Magazine with boys discovering treasure in a chest, red & blue titles to face and pink titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £4.95. Very slightly grubby. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges & to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight age to page margins and edges, no other visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: Several colour facsimile front pages in red and blue from the Gem Magazines. A number of b/w, line drawings & illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 224 pp. text. in separate numbered blocks.* Description: Tom Merry's Best by Martin Clifford contains a further selection of Gems of the mid thirties. The titles of individual stories include "The Plot Against Tom Merry," "D'Arcy the 'Tec," "The Kidnapped Headmaster," "St. Jim's On The Warpath," "Getting Even With Ratty," Tom Merry's Great Jape," "Clue To A Fortune," and "The Treasure of Santa Maria." They are taken from Gem issues 1443, 1447, 1464, 1451, 1458, 1467, 1469, 1470. A NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st thus, with some minor faults in a VG protected dust jacket.*