Adventures of the Wishing-Chair - 1952 with Dj

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Adventures of the Wishing-Chair - 1952 with Dj

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I know this isn't the 'full' version because only the first edition can be classed as that, but this edition does have the extra five chapters, as I have this edition myself.

Not a bad price.
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If you're thinking of me there, Rob, I very much appreciate it, but that dust jacket isn't in good enough condition for me to bother. :wink: As you say, though, good price.
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I was partly - but think maybe there were some others, too. I agree about the wrapper, although if I bought it I would soon fix it at the back with paper! ;-)
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Rob Houghton wrote:I agree about the wrapper, although if I bought it I would soon fix it at the back with paper! ;-)
And then all the purist collectors would have the screaming horrors. :twisted:
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I don't care! :twisted: I'd sooner have a wrapper that looks good than one that's falling apart and gradually gets more ripped! ;-)

I know - I'm a right pleb! :lol:
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Courtenay wrote:And then all the purist collectors would have the screaming horrors.
We've always said "the screaming habdabs".
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Anita Bensoussane wrote: We've always said "the screaming habdabs".
Never had those before... I'm sure they're much worse. :shock: :wink:
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I've always thought it was 'screaming abdabs' - but maybe that's just Brummies dropping the 'h' ;-)
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I just checked the Collins Dictionary and Oxford Dictionary online. They each contain "habdabs" as well as "abdabs". Collins lists the two versions separately but Oxford has "abdabs (also habdabs)".
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I have always thought it was "abdabs". My goodness, we do have some strange words in our language, don't we!
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Its funny - one of those words that as a kid I thought grownups I knew had just made up!

rather like people saying 'behopes he does' as in 'better hope so' - well, I think that's what it means. people might say 'behopes it doesn't rain' or 'behopes its a good dinner' or 'behopes the party goes okay' etc etc.

Is this just a Birmingham/Midland expression?
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I've never heard of screaming habdabs or abdabs, but they both sound pretty scary! :lol:
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Rob Houghton wrote:I don't care! :twisted: I'd sooner have a wrapper that looks good than one that's falling apart and gradually gets more ripped! ;-)

I know - I'm a right pleb! :lol:
My thoughts exactly. If a wrapper is torn where's the sense in letting it get worse if you can patch it up and preserve it? A repaired dj is better than one that's fallen to bits. For what it's worth, to me the wrapper on that book is in a more than adequate condition, I'd mend it up a bit then pop it in a protective clear cover and it'd be good as new in my opinion :mrgreen: .
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Naaah, still not convinced myself, not least because I don't have the time or the skill to do a decent repair job on that dust jacket! :P My dad could — he works in a library and is really good at repairing damaged books and dust jackets — but he's in Australia and I'm not...
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Rob Houghton wrote:Its funny - one of those words that as a kid I thought grownups I knew had just made up!

rather like people saying 'behopes he does' as in 'better hope so' - well, I think that's what it means. people might say 'behopes it doesn't rain' or 'behopes its a good dinner' or 'behopes the party goes okay' etc etc.

Is this just a Birmingham/Midland expression?
I've never come across it here in East Anglia.

We do have the screaming habdabs though. :D
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