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Beyond Courage
by Blair, Clay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Jarrolds. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition. 215, [1] pages + 9 illustrations on 4 leaves. Grey cloth covers with red lettering on spine. Some spotting to top page edges. No signatures. Large piece missing to tail of dustwrapper spine and rear panel. 2" and smaller tears in edges of dustwrapper. "[...] the story of how a courageous and resourceful number of American airmen, shot down behind enemy lines and armed with nothing but their courage, fought their way back to safety. " - from dustwrapper blurb.; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002697
- Title
- Beyond Courage
- Author
- Blair, Clay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jarrolds
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Military Aviation World War II Two Korean War Inho
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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