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Carry On: Letters in War-Time
by Dawson, Coningsby
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Bridgewater , Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
"Carry On: Letters in War-Time" by Coningsby Dawson. New York: John Lane Company, 1917. pp. 133. portrait frontispiece of author. Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt title & illus. on front and gilt missing on spine (corners bent & frayed, marks on covers, spine bumped & frayed, edges of spine and covers are worn, front free endpaper is removed, front endpaper partially cracked at gutter, several signatures on half-title page, some pencil markings in margins mostly erased).
Fair condition.
Size: 7 1/2" x 5 1/8" (19.5cm x 13cm).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bazaar of Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B502
- Title
- Carry On: Letters in War-Time
- Author
- Dawson, Coningsby
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt title & illus. on front
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Lane Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Pages
- 133
- Weight
- 0.77 lbs
- Keywords
- WW1, Canadian army, artillery, letters
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; World War I;
Terms of Sale
Bazaar of Books
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About the Seller
Bazaar of Books
Biblio member since 2020
Bridgewater , Nova Scotia
About Bazaar of Books
General used books, all subjects. Some limited and rare editions. Books of Canadiana and about Nova Scotia.
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- Cloth
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- Gutter
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- Cracked
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- Gilt
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- New
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