Blockade Busters
by Barker, Ralph
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0393056090
- ISBN 13
- 9780393056099
- Seller
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York, W.W. Norton, 1977, hardcover, 224 pp, First U.S. Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches, touch of foxing to text block edges. Dustjacket price-clipped, light edge nicks, short closed tear to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The unlikely but true story of George Binney who, with his makeshift crew and fleet of stranded Norwegian ships, ran vital cargoes of war materials through the German blockade in the Skagerrak from 1940 to 1944. Illustrated with 12 pages of black-&-white photographs, a few tables and a map. Appended: Sources, Index. ISBN 9780393056099
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Details
- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11328
- Title
- Blockade Busters
- Author
- Barker, Ralph
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition stated, First Printing by numberline
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393056090
- ISBN 13
- 9780393056099
- Publisher
- Norton
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- This edition first published
- 1977
- Keywords
- 1940's; Blockades; British Isles; England; Fiction; General; Germany; History; Military; Naval; North Atlantic Ocean; Scandinavian; World War II; World War, 1939-1945
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