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Valiant Voyaging : A Short History of the British India Steam Navigation Company in the Second World War 1939-1945
by St. George Saunders, Hilary
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Kidderminster, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
First edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Light surface marking to covers, light rubbing to extremities. Spine sunned. Map of British India Company's Fleet at outbreak of war to endpapers. Two pages of regimental badges on the Dunera frontispiece. Light fox spotting to endpapers, text block edges and occasionally in text. Not ex-library. No names, notes or inscriptions. 216 pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.
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- Bookseller
- Soin2Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002722
- Title
- Valiant Voyaging : A Short History of the British India Steam Navigation Company in the Second World War 1939-1945
- Author
- St. George Saunders, Hilary
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Pages
- 216
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
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- Spine
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- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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