Away All Boats
by Dodson, Kenneth
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Very Good in a Good+ dustjacket. A Book Club edition. Blue boards with black lettering on spine. Deckled foredge and illustrated endpapers with maps showing the track of USS Belinda in the Pacific theater during WW II. Boards are square with solid binding. The interior is clean and free of any markings, no bookplates, previous owner names, etc. The beautifully illustrated dustjacket shows some darkening and has light chipping and wear at extremities. Protected in mylar cover. "This is one of the best sea books ever done..." -- Carl Sandburg. Basis for the 1956 movie with Jeff Chandler. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.
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Details
- Seller
- Linden Avenue Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 10138
- Title
- Away All Boats
- Author
- Dodson, Kenneth
- Illustrator
- Dwight Shepler, jacket design
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1954
- Pages
- 444
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction, military history, WW II, books into film
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Military & Military History; Books into Film; World War II; Maritime;
Terms of Sale
Linden Avenue Books
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....