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London: Hamilton plain red boards with a cream paper title label lettered in black to spine, tail of spine sunned where dust jacket is missing piece, lightly browned endpapers and some mild foxing to page edges, dust jacket unclipped but has heavily sunned and rubbed spine with loss at ends, rear panel has once been partially stuck to the board due to humidity but now it is free but has left some minor paper residue to the board, there is some offset red dye from the boards to the rear dust jacket panel as well as some pen doodlings ( see scan), tidy used copy, undated assumed first edition, by the author of Biggles. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
The Unknown Quantity. by Johns, W.E.:
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The Unknown Quantity.
by Johns, W.E.:
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- Hardcover
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London: John Hamilton, (1940) Appears to be the First Edition; undated in publishing details; this title first appeared in 1940. HB. Red and black patterned cloth lettered in black to white paper label on spine, and pictorial dustjacket showing hand holding gun with two pennies, lettered in yellow and white on blue background. 254pp, octavo. Crime thriller set in London. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket, now in clear removable sleeve. Clean covers with slight lean to binding, very light rubbing to corners; clean pages apart from a few spots to centres, some dust darkening to top closed edges and slight tanning to endpapers. Jacket bright and clean though edges rubbed with small losses, abrasions and creases, plus small abrasion to front near title; price-clipped. Still a decent copyof a scarce title.
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The Unknown Quantity
by JOHNS W. E
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- Hardcover
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