No Bugles No Drums
by Snell, Peter & Garth Gilmour
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Auckland: Minerva. Good in Good dust jacket. (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Edges of boards with heavy rubbing and abrasions. Dust-jacket has several 2" tears to margins. 1/2" missing at head and tail of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; [viii], 240 pages + frontispiece + plates. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216mm x 133mm. An account of the New Zealand runner Peter Snell. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21296
- Title
- No Bugles No Drums
- Author
- Snell, Peter & Garth Gilmour
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Minerva
- Place of Publication
- Auckland
- Date Published
- (1965)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.