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Away From Home
by MacDonald, Joyce
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Christchurch: Bookroom. Good in Fair dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's inscription. Fading to spine. Some fading to boards. Rubbing and wear to dust wrapper. 1" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. A couple of 1/4" tears along head of dust wrapper spine. 3/8" tear along head of rear panel of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 163 pages + plates. Blue cloth boards. No date [1945]. Page dimensions: 181mm x 118mm. "This is a book to appeal to every New Zealander, whether soldier or civilian, who feels proud of the record of the service of the men and women overseas. It will be of particular interest to the 2nd N. Z. E. F. members who at one time or another were patients in an Army hospital." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9785
- Title
- Away From Home
- Author
- MacDonald, Joyce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Bookroom
- Place of Publication
- Christchurch
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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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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