THE IDOL OF SAINT MONCREETH: A SCHOOL STORY OF MYSTERY, HUMOUR, AND SPORT.
by Burrage, A. Harcourt
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, n.d. (gift inscription dated 1928). 319 pp, 12mo (7 3/16" H), hard cover (orange cloth with black lettering and illustrations on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. B&w frontispiece. A public school mystery featuring the theft of The Gold Cup of Saint Moncreeth, the adventures of The Detective Clique and cricket. Moderate browning on endpapers, gift inscription on free front endpaper, book very slightly cocked, slight darkening to top of textblock, minor soiling to edges of textblock and on boards, very small bump to top corners of boards, very light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Good+.
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20466
- Title
- THE IDOL OF SAINT MONCREETH: A SCHOOL STORY OF MYSTERY, HUMOUR, AND SPORT.
- Author
- Burrage, A. Harcourt
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, n.d. (gift inscription dated 1928).
- Keywords
- Cricket, Boy's schools, Mysteries, Public school stories, Detectives, Detective Clique, Schoolmasters, Theft, Gold cups.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;
Terms of Sale
Capricorn Books
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About the Seller
Capricorn Books
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Oakville, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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