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Passage of Arms
by Eric Ambler
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Heinemann, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1959. Reprint. 250 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with pen inscriptions to front endpaper. Heavy tanning to text block edges and pencil inscriptions to rear pastedown. Binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. Moderate sunning to spine and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Heavier sunning to interior.
Synopsis
Passage of Arms is a novel by Eric Ambler, written in 1959. It is a fast paced thriller about the discovery of a cache of arms abandoned by communist insurgents in the jungle of Malaya, and the transfer of the arms via Singapore to Indonesia. The book is structured as a story within a story within a story. The outer story is that of Girija Krishnan, the Tamil plantation clerk who finds the cache and sells it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1643114420ADA
- Title
- Passage of Arms
- Author
- Eric Ambler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Date Published
- 1959
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- 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....
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