The Nine Days Wonder (The Operation Dynamo)
by MASEFIELD, John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, 1941. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [xvi], [62], [2] + 6 b/w plates to rear. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, blind lettering to upper board. Slight lean to spine, wear and bruising to extremities. Toned, faint foxing, discrete PO to ffep. Else, clean and tidy. In the original dust jacket: price-clipped, rubbed, numerous closed tears, amateur taping to extremities, spine flapping. Good+/ good+. The Ledbury-born Poet Laureate's short account of the Belgium campaign, ending at Dunquerque.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1934
- Title
- The Nine Days Wonder (The Operation Dynamo)
- Author
- MASEFIELD, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London; Toronto
- Date Published
- 1941
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
Terms of Sale
Quair Books
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About the Seller
Quair Books
Biblio member since 2019
Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...