Grand Story Book for Boys: The Bumper Book Series 4
by Various Contributors
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Beaver Books, London, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. Illustrated endpapers with black and white line drawings. Colour illustrated frontispiece  Illustrator not credited. The text is illustrated with black and white drawings, by various illustrators. 1/4 dark rose coloured cloth covered backstrip. 3/4 coloured illustrated front cover with black and red coloured titles. An annual put out for boys, probably in the 1950s, with lots of daring do an adventure stories. This edition has two Kenneth Wheeler stories, 3 Frank Richards School stories, Charles Hamilton story set in the world of "King of the Island", Edward Northcott does a short story on the Football Cup (soccer), Ralph Redway writes a daring do story set in the American West, Edward Capper tells the tale of a boxing event and Raymond Glendenning tells you what actually goes behind the scenes of soccer's' Grand Final Day. Softening of the backstrip edges with bumping and shipping  the underlying board is visible  to the book corners. A little rubbing of the book panels with browning and staining of the textblock edges. Age toning of the pages. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 125 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Annual; Inventory No: 0119634. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0119634
- Title
- Grand Story Book for Boys: The Bumper Book Series 4
- Author
- Various Contributors
- Illustrator
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Beaver Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- No date
- Keywords
- BZDB2 boys annual, 1950s, short stories, Frank Richards Children; Annual; Various Unbranded Various Contributors Grand Story Book for Boys: The Bumper Book Series 4
- Bookseller catalogs
- Annual;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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