The Centurions
by Larteguy, Jean
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair to Good
- Seller
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Good book that has significant edge and corner wear with rubbing and color loss, light bumps to corners with some board showing through at bottom corners, soft at spine ends, light soiling and some foxing to page edges, sunning to spine and with some soiling and light spotting to boards, previous owner signature front end page; in a Fair to Good dust jacket with soiling and some yellowing to white portions, sun fade to spine, significant edge wear with chips, tears, and color loss – largest tear is at front spine fold and is about 3 and ½ inches. Price of $4.95 present at bottom of front flap. Filmed in 1966 as Lost Command with Anthony Quinn, George Segal, and Claudia Cardinale. The fictionalized account follows a French Airborne Battalion fighting insurgents in Indochina and Algeria. Praised by many U.S. generals - including David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal – and highly sought during counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. A difficult book to find.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Squid Ink Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Biblio3102
- Title
- The Centurions
- Author
- Larteguy, Jean
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair to Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- U.S.
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Squid Ink Books
Payment in USD. Sales tax will be added to sales to AZ residents. Established customers will be invoiced. Books may be returned for any reason, with return condition as per shipped. If you order a book from us you will receive it, or be given a full refund. We don't ask you to pay extra for insurance to protect us. All books shipped with mylar dust jacket protectors, well-packed, in boxes.
About the Seller
Squid Ink Books
Biblio member since 2008
Tucson, Arizona
About Squid Ink Books
We sell collectible books and first editions, mostly modern or hyper-modern titles, many signed, via the internet, by catalogue mailings, and by appointment at our book casita in Tucson, Arizona.
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...