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The Heroes
by McKie, Ronald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good+ Condition/No Dust Jacket. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 285 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers spotted, text block clean. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Small tear to cloth . The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. A rare first edition. The Heroes, They Were Men of Z Force, 1944. Their Target - Singapore. Two missions named Jaywick and Rimau. Jaywick was a great success whilst Rimau was an utter failure. A group of men from many nationalities apart from Australians departed the Exmouth Gulf on the north-west coast of Australia aboard a small craft called the "Krait". This book is a fictionalised account of their exploits. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; Australian History; Australia; 1940s; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10351. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10351
- Title
- The Heroes
- Author
- McKie, Ronald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- BZDB137 second world war, singapore, exmouth, z force, special forces, australia, borneo, japanese, krait, Military & Warfare; Australian History; Australia; 1940s; History. Unbranded McKie, Ronald The Heroes
Terms of Sale
Great Southern Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Great Southern Books
Biblio member since 2012
King River, Western Australia
About Great Southern Books
We are an independent online bookstore and have been in business since 2012.
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- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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