The Third Biggles Omnibus: Containing Biggles in Spain, Biggles Goes to War, Biggles in the Baltic
by Johns, Captain W.E
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/VG
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1942. Blue cloth cover. Soft dusting of soiling to cover.Light browning to spine. Thin bumping & light rubbed wear & some cracking to head & foot of spine. Small rubbed wear to corner tips. Moderate foxing to edges. Small booksellers stamp to bottom fep. Quite clean content with a few pages with faint few only foxing but mostly to the margins. Binding very good albeit slightly loose. 256p Dj: jacket is seperated by rear cover at rear side of spine seam. Faint rubbing. Soft sunning to spine. Head & bottom of spine and head & bottom of flaps spine with thin wear/ small tears and chips. Tiny hole to rear flap spine. Price-cut to front flap foot.. Reprint. Hb. VG/VG.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BOOKMARK Ltd
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025327
- Title
- The Third Biggles Omnibus: Containing Biggles in Spain, Biggles Goes to War, Biggles in the Baltic
- Author
- Johns, Captain W.E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1942
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction > Childrens Literature;
Terms of Sale
BOOKMARK Ltd
Will reimburse cost of book, if not as described.
About the Seller
BOOKMARK Ltd
Biblio member since 2006
Auckland
About BOOKMARK Ltd
BOOK.MARK carries a large inventory of most subjects, the majority of which are not listed on the Net.Open 7 days.Shop has a great atmospere and plenty of memorabilia and curios to add to the pleasures of browsing the shelves.
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- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
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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...
- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
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