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Mountbatten: Hero of our Time. signed by Hough, Richard
by Hough, Richard
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About This Item
Special Book Club Edition 1980. Finely bound in publishers deluxe full red morocco leather binding. Spine with raised bands. Compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Patterned red endpapers. All edges gilt. In very good to near fine condition. 290 pp. 32 pp of illustrations. The eventful life of Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Mountbatten of Burma. In the Second World War he was head of Combined Operations in 1941, personally overseeing the Dieppe raid, ending the war as South East Asia Command receiving the Japanese surrender in Singapore. He was appointed Viceroy of India by Clement Attlee overseeing the granting of independence to the Partitioned India and Pakistan. Returning the Britain he joined the Admiralty later becoming the Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight, a position he held until his murder by the IRA in 1979.
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- Title
- Mountbatten: Hero of our Time. signed by Hough, Richard
- Author
- Hough, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Special Book Club Edition 1980
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- Military Subjects 1980 leather fine binding signed Jean Goehr deluxe Mountbatten: Hero of our Time Hough, Richard
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
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