The Jervis Bay Goes Down
by Fowler, Gene
- Used
- Good
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Random House, 1941 1st ed., 1st Prtg, 1941. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Flexbound. Good/No Jacket. Octavo, flex bound in blue cloth boards. Cover lightly faded and worn. Interior VG. No dj the sinking of this armed merchant cruiser by the Nazis. 24 pp. The poetry and newspaper account of one of the most heroic episodes relating to WW II. The Jervis Bay, an old liner sacrificed herself deliberately in a hopeless encounter with a Nazi battleship. The poem was first read on radio by Ronald Colman, both the newspaper account and the poem are a tribute to the ship.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20485
- Title
- The Jervis Bay Goes Down
- Author
- Fowler, Gene
- Format/Binding
- Flexbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- NY: Random House, 1941 1st ed., 1st Prtg
- Date Published
- 1941
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- Cloth
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- VG
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...