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Cover of Darkness
by Chisholm, Roderick
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
Item Price
€5.61€4.49
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1953. Second Impression. With a Foreword by Air Chief Marshal Sir William Elliot. Green cloth, gilt text (worn) on spine. 222pp. B/w Frontispiece. B/w illustrations. Sunned spine. Cup ring mark on front panel..Small nick to fore edge of front board. Name and date in blue ink on Ffep. Trace of foxing to edges, text clean. Essentially a book about the air by an airman. It is a chapter in the history of the war and the history of Great Britain. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- All Booked
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002513
- Title
- Cover of Darkness
- Author
- Chisholm, Roderick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- History War Airmen Aviation War-Story Great Britain Germany Flying Warplanes Aircrew Night-Flyers Fighter-Pilots WWII Second World War History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - General;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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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