The Gauntlet

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Overview:

Title: The Gauntlet
Author: Ronald Welch
Year: 1999
ISBN-10: 0192717626
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Price: £5.99
Pages: 197
Binding: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Gauntlet
Notes:
New edition 22cm Publication date and cover image from Amazon UK 2023-05-08 as Paperback and "OUP Oxford; New edition (7 Jan. 1999)".

Open Library provides preview and Archive.org full view (not examined) of apparent 1st printing (no numberline): "First published 1951" "First published in this edition 1999" "Cover illustration by Barry Jones" Author's Note precedes Contents. Back cover states price "£5.99 RRP".