Edward Arnold 1919. First edition, signed & dated by author, octavo, dark blue white-spotted cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, vii + 220pp + 16pp book ads, illus, VG- (light puckering to board cloth, text block almost sprung - front hinge completely cracked and rear only just attached, light tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims, owner's name stamp to upper page edges & to rear ep)

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Bookseller's Inventory #: 214736
Title: Caught by the Turks (with Portraits and Plans)
Author: YEATS-BROWN, FRANCIS
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Edward Arnold 1919
Keywords: Francis Yeats Brown autobiography First World War One WW1 Turkey Turks capture

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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...
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...
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Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...