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Spearhead: The Story of the First British Corps
by Desmond Bastick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little wear to the edges of the dust wrapper with extensive tape reinforcements to the
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Gutersloh: Headquarters 1 (BR) Corps BFPO 39, 1977. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little wear to the edges of the dust wrapper with extensive tape reinforcements to the edges verso. The contents complete, clean and tight. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (red boards with gilt titling to the spine & upper board) Physically 8½” x 6” (0.9 kg); 152pp; Includes: Plans of battle; Black & white photographs (within the text); Colour photographs (within the text); Maps; Appendices (8); Battle honours; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #195469|| Condition:
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- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 195469
- Title
- Spearhead: The Story of the First British Corps
- Author
- Desmond Bastick
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little wear to the edges of the dust wrapper with extensive tape reinforcements to the
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gutersloh: Headquarters 1 (BR) Corps BFPO 39
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- 1st british corps, military history, trench warfare, ypres, somme, dunkirk beaches, guderian, rommel, overlord, world war two, world war ii, world war 2, western front, world war i, world war one, wwi, first world war, great war, unit histories, first edi
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BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
Glossary
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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