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Minor Operations
by Taffrail
- Used
- Good
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1917. Author of Carry On, Stand By, Pincher Martin, O.D. The author states in the Preface that these stories first appeared in "Pearson's" and the "Royal" Magazines between 1912 and 1914. This is their first appearance in book form. Blue decorative cloth. 120pp. Cloth is worn on joints and edges with softened corners. P/o details on front pastedown with small stamp on Ffep. Pages are age darkened. Naval stories and sketches. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- All Booked
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003244
- Title
- Minor Operations
- Author
- Taffrail
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- C. Arthur Pearson, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- Naval Sketches Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo
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Te Awamutu, Waikato
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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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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