Macmillan & Co Limited, Melbourne, 1044. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Hard cover, Dust Jacket, cloth boards, pages stitched Good condition. Dust jacket is torn and yellowed. Boards are scuffed and marked at the edges. Pages are yellowed, there is very slight foxing to front and rear paste downs. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket intact with flaps, but has chunk missing from spine, and other signs of wear. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: X16899. .

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Bookseller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: X16899
Title: The Story of Dr. Wassell
Author: James Hilton
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Condition
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Later Edition
Publisher: Macmillan & Co Limited
Place of Publication: Melbourne
Date Published: 1044
Keywords: BZDB1 World War 1, Japan, America, Navy, Java, rescue Military & Warfare; James Hilton The Story of Dr. Wassell

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Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.

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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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Flap(s): The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...