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DAY OF INFAMY (SIGNED COPY)
by WALTER LORD
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Poor
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
NEW YORK: HENRY HOLT, 1957 Navy Blue cloth quarter binding with White and Yellow titles to spine and pale blue cloth boards, 215 x 145 mm approx. Maps to end papers, [viii] + 244 pp 32 pp of monochrome photos. First American Edition signed by the author in ink to the half title page. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good/ Poor (Book - soiling and and moderate shelf wear to boards, light offset browning bands to free end papers, mild even tanning to paper of book block, author signature as above, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- slight tide marks to both panel evidencing a liquid spillage, significant shelf rubbing / loss/ tears and associated line creases and some soiling. Non price clipped - cover $3.95. Some respectability restored by the fitting of a removable proprietary protective sleeve to prevent further degradation and to which pieces of coloured paper have been inserted to mask the stark white of the backing paper so as not to draw the eye on the bookshelf).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133296
- Title
- DAY OF INFAMY (SIGNED COPY)
- Author
- WALTER LORD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- HENRY HOLT
- Place of Publication
- NEW YORK
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Day of Infamy, Walter Lord, Signed Books Autographed copy, Pearl Harbor, Harbour, WWII, Japanese Air strike, Dec 7th 1941,
Terms of Sale
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- Title Page
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- Shelf Wear
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- Offset
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- Spine
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