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The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
by Thomas B. Buell
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316114707
- ISBN 13
- 9780316114707
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little Brown and Company / Naval Institute Press Edition, 1974. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little Brown and Company / Naval Institute Press Edition, 1974. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 489 pp. Black and white photographs. Printed dust jacket. Gray boards stamped in brown and gilt; photographic endpapers. Price-clipped dust jacket creased and worn along edges with some chipping and general scuffing. Boards show light shelfwear and spine ends nudged. Gouge at rear hinge but binding sound and interior unmarked; Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30078
- Title
- The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
- Author
- Thomas B. Buell
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316114707
- ISBN 13
- 9780316114707
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company / Naval Institute Press Edition
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1974
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
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