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THE UNCONQUERABLE
by HELEN MacINNES
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: GEORGE G HARRAP, 1944 Blue Boards with white blocked titles to spine, 205 x 145 mm approx. 452 pp First Edition 1st Impression 1944. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good/ Fair (Book - fading to cloth at extremities and where loss to jacket, mild foxing to prelims, last few pages and fore edge of book block. Dust spotting to top edge. Previous owner name and date March 1945 in ink to free front end paper.War economy paper of book block evenly tanned. Dust Jacket- chipped to extremities mainly around head and tail of spine - max depth 9 mm approx. and 1.5 cm tear to top rear panel at spine fold. Foxing showing through to white of rear panel. Non price clipped - cover 10/6. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve to which pieces of coloured paper have been inserted to mask the stark white of the backing paper so as not to offend the eye on the bookshelf).
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132729
- Title
- THE UNCONQUERABLE
- Author
- HELEN MacINNES
- Illustrator
- JACK MATTHEW (COVER ART)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- GEORGE G HARRAP
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- The Unconquerable, Helen MacInnes, Poland WWII, Warsaw, Sheila Matthews, First Edition,
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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