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Secret Agent of Japan: A Handbook to Japanese Imperialism
by Amleto Vespa
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Gollancz, London, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7.75 - 9.75" tall. xiv + 287pp. Binding firm, spine cocked and faded. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges foxed and browned. Covers slightly marked. Boards bowed. Corners bumped. Left Book Club edition. Introduced by H. J. Timperley. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Military & Warfare; Japan; 1930s; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52746. .
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- Seller
- Dreadnought Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 52746
- Title
- Secret Agent of Japan: A Handbook to Japanese Imperialism
- Author
- Amleto Vespa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- BZDB243 military, history, bio, veterans, intelligence, imperial, Japan, Italy, China Military & Warfare; Japan; 1930s; Biography & Autobiography. Unbranded Amleto Vespa Secret Agent of Japan: A Handbook to Japanese Imperialism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography; Military & Warfare;
Terms of Sale
Dreadnought Books
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About the Seller
Dreadnought Books
Biblio member since 2013
Bristol
About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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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