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The U-2 Affair
by David Wise
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cresset, 1963. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1963. First edition thus. 276 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Front free endpaper with corner missing. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Front board creased. Boards are strongly bowed. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1711018841ABS
- Title
- The U-2 Affair
- Author
- David Wise
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cresset
- Date Published
- 1963
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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