HMS Ulysses
by Maclean, Alistair
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VPR
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK * Edition: 2nd. Rep. * Date of Publication: 1955* Publisher: Collins* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, Dull gilt title to spine. Very slight bumps to head and tail of spine and corners. VG+* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED heavily damaged with some loss, PR* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY Map and Diagram to EPs. Some foxing to prelims and edges. Otherwise clean, crisp and tight. GD * Pages: 320 pp.text. Unclipped d/w badly worn and torn along bottom edge with several large tears and with 1 triangular section missing at front near fold. Spine chipped. Nibbled at top edge also. This is the October 1955 second reprint of the October 1955 first edition. MACLEAN'S FIRST NOVEL.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5262
- Title
- HMS Ulysses
- Author
- Maclean, Alistair
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VPR
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 0
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
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