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The Escapers, A Chronicle Of Escape In Many Wars, With 18 First Hand Accounts
by Eric Williams
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Collins, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1953. Hardcover. Good. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 432 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Flat signed by author to title page. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Some page corners folded. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1704807677ABS
- Title
- The Escapers, A Chronicle Of Escape In Many Wars, With 18 First Hand Accounts
- Author
- Eric Williams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collins, Eyre and Spottiswoode
- Date Published
- 1953
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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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