London: University of London Press, 1949 Reprint. Hardcover. Light orange cloth with black title to spine and front, and vignette of deer stag to front, with pictorial dustjacket. 186pp. Subtitled: Another adventure of King of the Commandos and his Three Musketeers, 'Copper' Colson, 'Trapper' Troublay and 'Cub' Peters. With colour plate frontispiece showing 'Cub' Peters by Stead, and 8 full page line drawings. Very Good book in Fair protected jacket. Covers clean with fade to top margins, bumped corners. Pages clean with lightly browned closed edges which have a few foxing spots. Ink name neatly to flyleaf. Jacket front image bright but is worn and creased with losses to edges and back.

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Bookseller: David Ford Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 28530
Title: Gimlet Comes Home.
Author: Johns, Captain W.E.:
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: University of London Press, 1949
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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David Ford Books is a member of the P.B.F.A. and sells a wide range of quality out of print and antiquarian books through their book sales and at bookfair throughout the UK. The condition of our books is of the utmost importance to us, with few falling below the VG and many in Fine condition. All dust wrappers are protected. Should you wish to discuss a book, or your requirements, please do not hesitate to contact us by email or (as I prefer to talk to customers personally) by telephone.

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Vignette: A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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...