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Operation Sea Lion: The Projected Invasion of England in 1949 - An Account of the German Preparations and the British Countermeasures
by Fleming, Peter
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Simon and Schuster, 1957. Book Club Edition. Hardcover Book and Vintage Dust Jacket in Good Condition. 24 b/w photos and 11 in-text cartoon drawings of the period, by Bernard Partridge, Osbert Lancaster, George Morrow, and others. 323pp. with Bibliography and index. 9 x 6.25 inches. Light gray cloth spine, blue boards, bright and clear gold lettering in red-brown spine panel, very clean, edges rubbed, spine head and heel lightly compressed. Binding tight, solid and square. Former owner tasteful name plate on paste-down. Front and back free lose endpapers have war maps. Rear hinge cracked. Pages in Fine Condition. Jacket in protective archival sleeve is clean, edge worn. July 1940--The code name Sea Lion is the name given to Hitler's plans to invade England and this book is an examination of all the factors which led up to the projected invasion, the German plans for launching it, and the British plans to repel it. 1957, Simon and Schuster.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029084
- Title
- Operation Sea Lion: The Projected Invasion of England in 1949 - An Account of the German Preparations and the British Countermeasures
- Author
- Fleming, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WORLD WAR II ADOLPH HITLER WINSTON CHURCHILL DUNKIRK
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. World War II;
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- Book Club Edition
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- Cloth
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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,...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
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