The Dingle War
by Davis, Bob
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1968. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, gray boards in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 185 pages. Signed and inscribed by author to "Bob and Lilly" and dated Sept. 1, 1968 on front free end-paper. First American edition, first printing. Comic novel set during World War II on the Dingle Peninsula along the Kerry coast. Book is clean, sound, tight and unmarked. Dust-jacket shows moderate wear with small tape repair on verso at heal of spine and mild evidence of moisture to lower edge of rear panel. Near very good in a good dust-jacket, with very scarce signature. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019370
- Title
- The Dingle War
- Author
- Davis, Bob
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Englewood Cliffs NJ
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Fiction, Ireland, World War II
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.