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The Silent Service: Action Stories of the Anzac Navy
by Jones, T. M. & Ion L. Idriess
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Fair with no dust jacket. (1944). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Rebound. Library stamps and markings. Lacking the half-title leaf. Pages 1-4 detached. Front hinge broken, with gutter split between pages xii and 1. ; (iii)-xii, 338 pages + frontispiece. Page dimensions: 205 x 133mm. "Torpedo-Man T. M. Jones has seen seventeen years' naval service in various classes of ships from submarine to battle cruiser [. . .] Ion L. Idriess is a bushman who can claim some knowledge of sailormen and of the sea, even to a shade of naval action." - page ix. .
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 18828
- Title
- The Silent Service: Action Stories of the Anzac Navy
- Author
- Jones, T. M. & Ion L. Idriess
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- (1944)
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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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...