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The Doomed Oasis
by Hammond Innes
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
American hardcover edition, published by Knopf, 1960. Aubrey George Grant is a Welsh lawyer, while on a business trip in the Middle East he finds himself caught up in a violent struggle over a newly discovered oil field. 310 pages, beige and green colored boards, 5-7/8" X 8-1/2"
The dust jacket is intact, though it is price clipped, and it does have several short tears and chips, and edge wear at the spine. The dust jacket has been covered with a removable, clear book cover.
Not marked as such, but this copy would appear to be the book club edition, considering the type of paper stock used. Also, a slightly smaller type font is used on club edition at this time, so the number of pages is a bit less than the true first which has 340 pages.
This is not a library discard, not a remainder copy. The binding is intact and tight with all text pages tightly bound. No writing on the text, no former ownership marks. Age tanning to the edges of the text block.. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory, not a stock photo.
The dust jacket is intact, though it is price clipped, and it does have several short tears and chips, and edge wear at the spine. The dust jacket has been covered with a removable, clear book cover.
Not marked as such, but this copy would appear to be the book club edition, considering the type of paper stock used. Also, a slightly smaller type font is used on club edition at this time, so the number of pages is a bit less than the true first which has 340 pages.
This is not a library discard, not a remainder copy. The binding is intact and tight with all text pages tightly bound. No writing on the text, no former ownership marks. Age tanning to the edges of the text block.. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory, not a stock photo.
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Details
- Seller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 19-249
- Title
- The Doomed Oasis
- Author
- Hammond Innes
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Date Published
- 1960
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- thriller action mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Thriller; 19Q1;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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