The Flight of the Scarlet Eagle
by Capt. Michael Cely, Late R.A.F., Author of "Round the World in Eighty Hours" "Black Winds" etc
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1937. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth Bound Boards. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1937 first edition. Size octavo, 7.75" tall, 256 pages plus 16 page publisher's catalogue at the rear. Red cloth covered boards with black titles and border and vignette illustration to the front cover, black titles and vignette of a plane on the spine, with the dust jacket with colour illustrations to the front panel and the spine. With a colour frontispiece illustration of "The Scarlet Eagle" and another plane. Book condition good, corners rubbed and bumped, cloth a little faded, lower edge and head and tail of spine rubbed and a little faded, front paste-down a little wrinkled, a few spots to end-papers, pages are toned otherwise clean, no inscriptions. Dust jacket condition good, a lot of creasing along the top edge with a few nicks and chips, 1x1cm tear with loss at top of spine, closed tear without loss to top edge of spine, chipping to lower edge of spine and front panel, creasing to lower edge of rear panel, dust darkened, price corners has been clipped but I think by the publisher as there is a sticker just above that showing the price 4'- net.
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- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017742
- Title
- The Flight of the Scarlet Eagle
- Author
- Capt. Michael Cely, Late R.A.F., Author of "Round the World in Eighty Hours" "Black Winds" etc
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Bound Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Pages
- 256
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- FICTION FIRST WORLD WAR WWI ROYAL AIR FORCE FLYING AVIATION PLANES DOG FIGHTS
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
Biblio member since 2007
Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
We are a small family business located in Blackpool, England. We stock a varied range of Antiquarian and Collectable Books; Antiquarian Holy Bibles, Fine Bindings, Literature, Poetry, Military, Travel, First Editions, Illustrated, Childrens', Signed Books and more.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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