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Going to the Wars A Journey In Various Directions
by John Verney
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Collins, London, 1955. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Hard Cover with Jacket, Cloth Boards Fair condition jacket has some discolouration, tear to edge of forejacket, good condition cloth boards, ink numerals on front endpaper, yellowing to end pages and page edges. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears, and is foxed here and there. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: X16492. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- X16492
- Title
- Going to the Wars A Journey In Various Directions
- Author
- John Verney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- BZDB1 english literature biographical war Military & Warfare; John Verney Going to the Wars A Journey In Various Directions
Terms of Sale
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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