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The Surgeon and the Shepherd: Two Resistance Heroes in Vichy France
by Meg Ostrum
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0803235739
- ISBN 13
- 9780803235731
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover with dust jacket, published by the University of Nebraska Press, 2004. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Not a remainder, not a library copy. Former owner's name is written in blue pen ink on the top right corner of the ffep. Gray boards over black cloth covered spine, with the author name and title on the spine in silver. All lettering on the spine is crisp and not rubbed or worn. The boards are flat and the corners are not creased or bumped. The binding is tight and square. No rubbing marks or other wear to the jacket. The edges of the text block are clean. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory, not a stock photo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20-703
- Title
- The Surgeon and the Shepherd: Two Resistance Heroes in Vichy France
- Author
- Meg Ostrum
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0803235739
- ISBN 13
- 9780803235731
- Publisher
- University Of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- memoir, holocaust, jewish history, vichy france, france
- Bookseller catalogs
- WWII; France;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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....
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Stock Photo
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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