Combat Report: The Story of a Fighter Pilot
by Hector Bolitho
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Batsford, 1943. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1943. First Edition. 138 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Ex libris plate at front. Black and white photographs. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces. Book has slight backwards lean. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1715096861LEE
- Title
- Combat Report: The Story of a Fighter Pilot
- Author
- Hector Bolitho
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Batsford
- Date Published
- 1943
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- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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