The Last Raider
by Reeman, Douglas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus/Good Plus
- Seller
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Ashmore, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London: Jarrolds Publishers, 1963. 382pp. Prev owner's signature by the upper edge of the half title page. Page edges lightly foxed. Blue cloth boards in dust-jacket designed by John Smith. The jacket is rubbed, and edge-worn with some loss at the front flap fold. It has had the lower section of the front flap cut away (removing a 25mm section in additon to a diagonal price-clip). The story is set in 1917 and concerns Korvetten-Kapaitan Felix von Steiger commanding a raider.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Good Plus. 8vo.
Synopsis
Douglas Reeman did convoy duty in the navy in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his own name and more than twenty bestselling historical novels featuring Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lawrence Jones
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016967
- Title
- The Last Raider
- Author
- Reeman, Douglas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Good Plus
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jarrolds Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- World War I German Raiders British Blockade Fiction Sea Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts; Fiction; Maritime/ Sailing/ Shipping;
Terms of Sale
Lawrence Jones
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About the Seller
Lawrence Jones
Biblio member since 2006
Ashmore, Queensland
About Lawrence Jones
I carry a general stock of approx 70000 titles of which only a small percentage is online. Viewing at my Ashmore bookrooms is welcome by appointment. While not specializing I have a good selection of art, natural history, military and surfing in stock. I also have many other non-fiction subjects, as well as approx 10000 paperback fiction titles on hand.
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