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The Road Past Mandalay
by Masters, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Michael Joseph, 1961. 1st Edition 3rd Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition, third printing. 344pp with occasional black and white plate illustrations. In green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and motif on front panel. 8vo. Boards lightly rubbed at edges and joints. Text block edges a little toned. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In it original edge worn and slightly toned dust jacket, price clipped, with small nick on upper edge. An impressively written account of the author's involvement in the Second World War and that part of Upper Burma know as Blackpool.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015039
- Title
- The Road Past Mandalay
- Author
- Masters, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 3rd Impression
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Second World War, Burma
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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