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The Adventures of a Three Guinea Watch
Talbot Baines Reed
1883
The Religious Tract Society : London
8" by 5"
340pp [10]
SUMMARY
A handsome children's book told from the point of view of a watch.
Illustrated,Publishers' Original Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed
This book weighs 0.75 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
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EU Postage: £ 15.99
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DESCRIPTION
The story follows the owner's days through boarding shool, the watch's pawning and eventual reunion with his owner.
Talbot Baines Reed (1852 - 1893) was an English author who is famously remembered for established a genre of school stories within the mid-2oth century. As a regular contributor to 'The Boy's Own Paper' in which much of his fiction first appeared, this text was Reed's first school story published in the paper, running for nineteen instalments from October 1880 to April 1881. Due to the immediate success and popularity of the story, Reed was encouraged by the editor's to attempt longer and more ambitious works, resulting in the publication of 'The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's', Reeds most popular and influential story.
In the publisher's original pictorial binding, featuring a prize bookplate to the front pastedown.
CONDITION
In a cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Very light bumping to extremities. Light markings to boards. Prize bookplate to front pastedown. Some offsetting to first front free end-paper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean.
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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