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Day Lewis, Cecil. The Otterbury Incident. Putnam & Co. Ltd., London, 1948.
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The spine is faded at the top and bottom with a small tear at the bottom next to the front panel. The edges are browned with some small dents to the bottom edge of the front panel and there is a small raised bump on the rear panel. Page edges a little browned. Pink crayon initials of a previous owner on the front pastedown. Scattered spotting to the endpapers. The pages have a few small tears to the bottom edges but are otherwise generally unmarked. The jacket is badly torn with a four inch closed tear along the spine and the front panel at the bottom and a three inch closed tear at the top with chipping at the top and bottom and three tears across the spine - it has been repaired to the reverse. There are a number of chips out of the top and bottom edges of the front and rear panels with chipping and loss at the corners and creasing to the bottom right corner of the front panel. There are four dark tape marks to the reverse of the jacket from earlier repairs. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Day Lewis Cecil. The Otterbury Incident. Putnam, London, 1948.
Price: US$167.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition First Printing of this exciting adventure featuring two initially rival gangs of schoolboys, who frm an unholy alliance and end up solving a major crime and bringing the perpetrators to justice. Hooray.A Very Good Book With some damp staining to front free endpapers in a very good pictorial dustwrapper With black and white illustrations by Edward Ardizzone throughout.
Seller: barnoble-books, Boston, LINCS, United Kingdom
Day Lewis, Cecil. The Otterbury Incident. London: Putnam;, 1948.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Near fine in red boards with foxing to the preliminaries in very good dustjacket, generally worn with a small tear to the spine.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom