Mission with Mountbatten
by Alan Campbell-Johnson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Highland, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Robert Hale Limited. Fair with no dust jacket. 1952. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. One of the prelim pages is disconnected from binding (It only reads Part 1: The Last Viceroy). Stains and rubbing to covers. Fading to spine text. Scratches and tains to exterior edge of pages, minor. Inner hinge cracked. Very minor markings to a few pages. ; 383 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- True Oak Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HVD-42336-A-0
- Title
- Mission with Mountbatten
- Author
- Alan Campbell-Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- Publisher
- Robert Hale Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
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True Oak Books
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Highland, New York
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True Oak Books is a proud member of the IOBA (Independent Online Booksellers Association) and adheres to their high ethical and professional standards.
In order to remain competitive with low value books and be able to offer them, we have a tiered shipping system to make low price transactions economically sound. Lower value books will ship in a protective bubble mailer, as 99% of these reach the customer without problems. We go beyond this for higher ticket items and provide box service. If your post office handles books roughly, you can request cardboard/box service for lower value items as well.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...