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ENDLESS STORY, Being an Account of the Work of the Destroyers, Flotilla-Leaders, Torpedo-Boats and Patrol Boats in the Great War
by TAFFRAIL (Captain Taprell Dorling R.N, D.S.O.)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: HODDER & STOUGHTON, 1931 Navy Blue cloth boards with white blocked titles to spine and front panel. 250 x 165 mm approx. 452 pp . Colour frontis + many unspecified maps/ charts and b/w chapter tail piece illustrations. First Edition 1931. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good no d/j (Book- significant flaking/ waer to white blocked titles and frame decs, moderate shelf wear to cloth, ink gift insc. to front free end paper. Heavy foxing to margins of prelims and last couple of pages. Binding sound with no other notable defects. A sound reading/ reference copy).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130369
- Title
- ENDLESS STORY, Being an Account of the Work of the Destroyers, Flotilla-Leaders, Torpedo-Boats and Patrol Boats in the Great War
- Author
- TAFFRAIL (Captain Taprell Dorling R.N, D.S.O.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- HODDER & STOUGHTON
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Endless Story, Taffrail, Captain Taprell Dorling, WWI, Maritime Warfare, The Battle of the Bight, Gallipoli, The Dardanelles,Jutland, The Dover Patrol, Zeebrugge, Destroyers, Torpedo Boats, Australian Destroyers,
Terms of Sale
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- Shelf Wear
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- Cloth
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