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Sailing to Freedom
by Veedam, Voldeman & Carl B. Wall
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Phoenix House. Good in Fair dust jacket. (1953). Hardcover. Spine with slanting and concavity. Large tear to blank lower margin of one leaf (pages 225-6). Loss of upper 60mm of rear panel of dust-jacket, with loss to advertisement. ; Fourth impression, in same year as the first printing. 255, [1 (blank)] pages + 7 photographic illustrations on 2 plate leaves. Maps on endpapers. Full page plan "Scale Drawing of the Erma" on 1 paginated leaf. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 135mm. "No one, not even an N.K.V.D. Agent, watching the Erma's departure from a small Swedish port, could have supposed it to be the beginning of a transatlantic crossing A family picnic trip, yes; but a sea trip of 8,000 miles with 16 men, women and children aboard an old sloop made for four [. . .] Exiled Estonians these people were, ordered to return to their Russian-controlled native country; they chose instead to sail for freedom - and hunger sailed with them. From port to port they staggered on. They were showered with kindness in Scotland, and the Irish went wild about them." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24683
- Title
- Sailing to Freedom
- Author
- Veedam, Voldeman & Carl B. Wall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- Phoenix House
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1953)
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.
Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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