Never So Proud: Crete, May 1941: the Battle and Evacuation
by John Wingate
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Heinemann, 1966. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1966. First Edition. 212 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth. Minor tanning to pages with pen inscriptions to front endpaper and visible foxing to text block edges. Boards have minor rubbing and mild bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket with light edge wear and rubbing. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and notable sunning to interior.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1630524173GEO
- Title
- Never So Proud: Crete, May 1941: the Battle and Evacuation
- Author
- John Wingate
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Date Published
- 1966
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- First Edition
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- Fair
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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....
- 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...