Over to You
by Dahl, Roald
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Albany, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The author's first adult collection of stories. In beige cloth with red and blue type. Some light foxing to top page ends, top of boards and to a lesser degree, bottoms of boards. Deckle edge. Clean with tight binding. Jacket is unclipped ($2.50) with chips mainly to tops of front panel and spine with some micro chips to bottom edge especially at spine. Nicks and several short tears at edges and fading to part of the letter 'O' of title on front panel and to entire title on spine. Tape reinforced along top inside of rear panel and spine and about half of inside bottom edge of same.
Synopsis
During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in the RAF and even suffered horrific injuries in an air crash in the Libyan Desert. Drawing on his own experience as a fighter pilot, Dahl crafted these ten spine-tingling stories: of air battles in the sky; of the nightmare of being shot down; the infectious madness of conflict; and the nervy jollity of the Mess and Ops room. Dahl brilliantly conveys the bizarre reality of a wartime pilot's daily existence, where death is a constant companion and life is lived from one heartbeat to the next.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB004616RD
- Title
- Over to You
- Author
- Dahl, Roald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition/First Printing
- Publisher
- Reynal & Hitchcock
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- British Literature;
Terms of Sale
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Deckle edge
- Deckle edge is the feathered edge of a page. Traditionally and historically, this was a side effect of the process of making...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....