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Escape from the Bloodied Sun
by Guest, Captain Freddie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hutchinson of London, London, 1957. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. list of illustrations, acknowledgements, author's note. Within the text there are another 16 black and white photographs and 1 double page map and 1 single page map. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Corners of the book are slightly rubbed and there is fading to the spine and the head and the heel of the spine is bumped and rubbed. Browning to the paper edge is a long with faint foxing as well. Slight foxing to the extreme edges of the endpapers, there is also a faint brown stain running the full-length of both the front and back endpapers to a width of 2". The internal pages are somewhat brown and the extreme edges. A personal account of the escape of the author and Admiral Sir Chan Chak from Hong Kong when the Japanese invaded Hong Kong, and the eventual escape route to China. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 192 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Military & Warfare. Inventory No: 0101477. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0101477
- Title
- Escape from the Bloodied Sun
- Author
- Guest, Captain Freddie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson of London
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Captain Freddie Guest -- Memoirs -- Military -- World War II, Japanese Invasion of Hong Kong, Asian Theatre of War, Military History, Japanese Invasion of China Biography & Autobiography; Military & Warfare. Unbranded Guest, Captain Freddi
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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