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The World Crisis
by Winston Churchill
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Aurora, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
The World Crisis - Winston Churchill (Sandhurst Edition 1933 Hardcover) Non-Fiction History War WWI British Military
Sandhurst edition is an abridged and revised version of The World Crisis, which is Winston Churchill's history of WWI. Illustrated including maps and foldouts. Published 1933 by Thornton Butterworth, Limited (London), printed in the Great Britain. 511 pages.
NO dust jacket. Orange-red hardcovers show significant wear to include heavy spine lean, bowed and curved boards, noticeable tanning and sunfade to the spine and edges, nicks to the edges, bumped corners, worn-through spine head and tail, bumped spine head and tail, scratches, soiling, white spots, and shelfwear. Book is heavily cracked at page 510-511 with hard creases throughout the volume that will eventually crack (such as page 482). Boards bow as viewed from the top edge. The nicks to the edges have caused distorted edges and worn-through areas. Tanned and scratched textblock with spots, smudges/rubbing, stains, and soiling. There are brown and white spots and stains on several pages, to include the pastedowns, endpapers, and the first several pages. Half title page and the rear of page 511 are heavily tanned. There does not appear to be any writing. Overall, this book is in Acceptable or Fair condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bronze Anthology LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1276
- Title
- The World Crisis
- Author
- Winston Churchill
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sandhurst Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thornton Butterworth, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
- Pages
- 511
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- The World Crisis, Winston Churchill, Sandhurst Edition, 1933, Non-Fiction, History, War, WWI, British, Military,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Militaria and War; History; Non-Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Bronze Anthology LLC
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About the Seller
Bronze Anthology LLC
Biblio member since 2017
Aurora, Colorado
About Bronze Anthology LLC
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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