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For France! (C'est Pour La France)
by Captain A. J. Dawson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$52.69NZ$39.51
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About This Item
For France! (C'est Pour La France) by Captain A. J. Dawson, drawn by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather.
Hardback, 1917, illustrated, published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 176 pages + viii.
Octavo/8vo. Measures around 8 3/4" by 5 3/4" by 1 1/8". Tan cloth binding, black lettering, edging and lilac decoration to front board; black lettering to spine. Discolouration to spine and to some degree on boards. Scuffing, marking and staining, particularly to edges of boards. Signs of shelf-wear, bumped and torn corners. Binding holding, reasonably firm on outside, but some strain and cracking in parts of textblock, including towards front inner hinge and loose plate between pages 66 and 67. Page edges a little deckled; some browning and scuffing. Some foxing to preliminaries and hindmost pages, occasional marking throughout page surfaces but generally clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-163
- Title
- For France! (C'est Pour La France)
- Author
- Captain A. J. Dawson
- Illustrator
- Captain Bruce Bairnsfather
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1917
- Pages
- viii + 176
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WW1, WWI, World War One, First World War, France, Germany, Military
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
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