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Conan Doyle Stories
by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0861368878
- ISBN 13
- 9780861368877
- Seller
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Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Galley Books, 1985. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Galley Press edition first printing, Hardback book is tight clean and square. Boards sharp and clean, gilt perfect. Text block clean, with heavy toning to edges due to paper quality. Feels lightly read, with stressed binding to title page. Sharp spine ends. Slightly shaken at head of spine. Very good condition. Jacket some minor crimping and creasing to edges. There is a 4mm closed tear to the head of the spine. Overall very good. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a quality addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A solid example of this superb collection of 76 stories in 1202 pages arranged under various headings: Pirates, Terror, Mystery, tales of Twilight and the Unseen, Adventure, Medical Life,Tales From Long Ago, Tales of the Blue Water, Camp Tales, and, Tales of the Ring.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Durdles Books (IOBA)
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006759
- Title
- Conan Doyle Stories
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0861368878
- ISBN 13
- 9780861368877
- Publisher
- Galley Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Pages
- 1202
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- General
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction;
- X weight
- 1500 g
Terms of Sale
Durdles Books (IOBA)
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Durdles Books (IOBA)
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Birmingham, West Midlands
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About Durdles Books (IOBA)
Durdles Books is an online bookshop that specialises in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Modern Firsts and Genre Fiction. We also have books in many other categories and think our stock is both varied and interesting. We are constantly busy sourcing new stock in great condition, as collectors ourselves we appreciate that there is nothing like finding a lovely copy of a book that is on "the list". We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), so you can be assured of our commitment to good bookselling practices and customer service.
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- 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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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