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The Secrets of the German War Office
by Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
NZ$37.49NZ$31.86
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About This Item
Hardcover, published by McBride, Nast & Company, 1914. First published September, 1914, this is the 8th printing from November, 1914. Graves worked as a double agent for MI5 during WWI, sent to Germany to try to identify German spies working in Britain on the ve of WWI. No dust jacket. 256 pages, 6" X 8-1/2". Dark green cloth covered boards, with the title and author name imprinted on the front board and spine in gold. All lettering is crisp and not rubbed or worn. Cover boards are flat, just has some light wear to the head and heel of the spine and to the very tips of the corners. A former owner's book plate is on the front paste-down, about 3" X 4". No writing on the text pages, no further ownership marks besides the bookplate. Binding is tight and square. All text pages are firmly bound. Edges of the text block are relatively clean considering the age and type of paper stock used. This copy is not a library discard. The attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22-11694
- Title
- The Secrets of the German War Office
- Author
- Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McBride, Nast & Company
- Date Published
- 1914
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
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Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
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