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Dawn Watch in China
by Joy Homer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Dawn Watch in China by Joy Homer.
Hardback, 1941, first edition, published by Collins, London, 288 pages.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 8 3/4" by 6" by 1 1/8". No dust jacket. Purple cloth binding, faded gilt lettering to spine. A little marking and scuffing to binding but quite clean and colouring still vivid. Signs of wear, a little rubbing at edges and on hinges. Slightly bumped corners. Book has slight forward tilt. Binding reasonably firm though some strain and a little cracking near front inner hinge and elsewhere in textblock. Page edges a little browned, scuffed and a bit marked but reasonably clean. Lower page edges deckled. Map endpapers, previous owner bookplate to front free endpaper. Page surfaces quite clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-259
- Title
- Dawn Watch in China
- Author
- Joy Homer
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1941
- Pages
- 288
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WW2, Second World War, China, Journalism, Travel, Military
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- 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...
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