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Cross Purposes
by Cecil, Henry
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0718114426
- ISBN 13
- 9780718114428
- Seller
-
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Michael Joseph, 1976. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Black cloth with white lettering on spine, 186 pages, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition price clipped, now in Mylar. "The Bartons are a happy family who are finding it difficult to make ends meet. Then, one day, Mrs Barton wins a large sum on the football pools & their lives change forever. The Bartons are a kind couple & they use their newly won fortune to help their family and friends. This leads them into a tangled web serious legal & moral problems and they find themselves worse off than before." Check out the scans. . First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Jacket by John Riley. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009899
- Title
- Cross Purposes
- Author
- Cecil, Henry
- Illustrator
- Jacket by John Riley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0718114426
- ISBN 13
- 9780718114428
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Cecil, Henry Cross Purposes Jacket by John Riley Michael Joseph 0718114426 -----The scan you see is the book you get. Black cloth with white lettering on spine, 186 pages, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition price clipped, now i
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Humor;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
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