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THE PERSIAN WAR STORY (SIGNED COPY)
by SID BARNES AND HENRY ALPER
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0720704863
- ISBN 13
- 9780720704860
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: PELHAM BOOKS, 1971 Burgundy boards with silver blocked titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx. Frontis + 35 other b/w photo illustrations on 20 pp of glossy plates as called for. First Edition 1971 Inscribed and signed by the owner Henry Alper in blue ink to free front end paper. Co written by the then Racing Editor of the London Evening News and the Owner. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Fair (Book- mild general shelf wear to boards, insc. as above. Dust Jacket - heavy shelf rubbing to extremities - mainly colour loss to fore and spine edges, and a little loss to head and tail of spine and corner tips. A little soiling to rear panel. Non price clipped - cover £2. net 40s. In a removable loose fitting plastic cover. No other notable defects to book or jacket).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132787
- Title
- THE PERSIAN WAR STORY (SIGNED COPY)
- Author
- SID BARNES AND HENRY ALPER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0720704863
- ISBN 13
- 9780720704860
- Publisher
- PELHAM BOOKS
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Persian War, Sid Barnes, Henry Alpper, Horse racing, National Hunt Racing, Champion Hurdle Winner, Tom Masson, Brian Swift, Colin Davis, The Astor Stud, The Coghran Stud, Chadwick Stone and Co. Signed Books,
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- Price Clipped
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- First Edition
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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...
- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fair
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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