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Battlefire!: Combat Stories from World War II
by Arthur L. Kelly
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0813120349
- ISBN 13
- 9780813120348
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
NZ$11.86NZ$10.67
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About This Item
First hardcover edition, published by The University Press of Kentucky, 1997. Col. Kelly interviewed more than one hundred veterans over the course of a decade. From those interviews, with the addition of historical background, come these stories of men who endured extreme combat situations. 226 pages, with Index, and Sources. Illustrated through the text with photos. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped, there is a crease mark to the front flap, runs vertically from top to bottom on the flap. Dark blue heavy weight cloth covered boards with the title and author name imprinted on the spine in gold. Boards are flat and the corners are not bumped or creased. No edge wear to the boards. Edges of the text block are clean. The sewn binding is tight and square. Very light bump to the fore edge from shelf wear. Small dot of a rubbing wear mark to the top left of the back cover, about the size of a sesame seed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21-425
- Title
- Battlefire!: Combat Stories from World War II
- Author
- Arthur L. Kelly
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0813120349
- ISBN 13
- 9780813120348
- Publisher
- University Press Of Kentucky
- Place of Publication
- Lexington
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- WWII, True combat stories,
- Bookseller catalogs
- WWII;
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Hopkins Books
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Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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