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Light and Shade in War
by Ross, Malcolm (Captain) & Noel Ross
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Edward Arnold. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1916. Hardcover. No signatures. Spine faded. Moderate spotting to top page edges. A couple of small stains to top page edges. Minor rubbing to edges of spine and boards. Tissue guard to frontis present. Gutters intact at hinges. ; Second impression. x, [2], 271, [3] pages + [2] pages advertisements + frontis + 11 illustrations on 7 leaves. Black titles on spine and front board. Gilt sunrise (or sunset?) illustration on front board. "Most of these sketches were written whilst the scenes and incidents they depict were fresh in the mind; some under fire. The proofs were corrected on the battlefield of the Somme in a tent over which British and German shells were passing at the time." - from the preface. ; 12mo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4344
- Title
- Light and Shade in War
- Author
- Ross, Malcolm (Captain) & Noel Ross
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Edward Arnold
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- Biography Military History
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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- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...