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The Last Battle
by Cornelius Ryan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover with dust jacket, published by Simon and Schuster, 1966. This copy is a Book Club Edition, a third printing copy. Classic of WWII History. Ryan interviewed hundreds of participants in his research of this story of the Battle of Berlin. 572 pages, with Index, Bibliography, and photos. 6-1/4" X 9-1/4". Color map on the paste-down pages. The dust jacket shows wear - with chips at the top left, heel of the spine panel, several creases and edge wear. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Black cloth covered boards Minor edge wear to the bottom edges and tips of the corners. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Sewn binding is tight and square. Edges of the text block show a few dots of age tanning. Nicely printed for a Book Club edition, very sturdy, weighing more than 2 pounds. Not a library discard. Attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.
Synopsis
An account of the events leading up to the fall of Berlin and the end of World War II.
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Details
- Seller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 23-12803
- Title
- The Last Battle
- Author
- Cornelius Ryan
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- WWII;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
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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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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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...
- 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....
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