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A Night of Watching
by Arnold, Elliott
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition, without Jacket. Red cloth binding with white titles on spine, quite clean and unmarked with light wear to corners and spine heel, spine head compressed, upper front corner gently bumped, upper rear corner with indentation nearby. Tight, solid and square. Rough cut. Former owner name label on paste-down. Pages and page edges quite clean, no markings at all. Rear inner hinge cracked. Novel based on true events during World War II when the underground of occupied Denmark successfully smuggled virtually the entire population of Danish Jews, approximately 8,000 persons, into Sweden to avoid their scheduled deportation to extermination. 441 pp. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 1967, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, New York, USA
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023810
- Title
- A Night of Watching
- Author
- Arnold, Elliott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION JEWS DENMARK
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Military;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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