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Bamboo Doctor
by Pavillard, Stanley S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co. Good in Good dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Fading to ends of spine and lower margin of boards. Rubbing to lower edge of boards. 1/4" loss of cloth to lower corners of boards. Up to 1" loss of cloth along lower edges of boards. Rubbing to ends of dust wrapper spine. Adhesive tape repairs to ends of dust wrapper spine. A couple of 1" tears at tail of dust wrapper spine. Rubbing and creasing along lower edge of dust wrapper. Series of 1/4" tears along lower edge of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; ix, [1], 206 pages + frontis + plates. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 217mm x 135mm. "Many book have been written about the life - and death - of prisoners of war under the Japanese in Siam. There would have been few survivors to tell the tale had it not been for the Medical Officers [. . . ] Stanley Pavillard was one of that band of doctors." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7695
- Title
- Bamboo Doctor
- Author
- Pavillard, Stanley S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
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.
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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