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At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy
by Bulkley Jr, Captain Robert J
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Buttaba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Washington, USA: Government Printing Office, 1962. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover with blue boards, no dust jacket, first edition, 1230gms, 574 pages. Book is in good condition with moderate general wear and tear and moderate page discolouration/spotting throughout. There is a bookplate from a previous owner (W. H. Gibbins) is on the inside front endpaper. Boards are in fair to good condition with moderate shelf wear and scuffing to corners and edges. Boards also show rubbing particularly to spine where gold stamping is barely visible. Front board shows a small white sticker, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Book weighs over 1kg and may incur additional postage..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reading Habit
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WARSEA14
- Title
- At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy
- Author
- Bulkley Jr, Captain Robert J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington, USA
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- War, Military, United States Navy, Sea Warfare, Captain Robert J. Bulkley Jr, President John F. Kennedy
- Bookseller catalogs
- War/Military; American History;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
Reading Habit
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Reading Habit
Biblio member since 2009
Buttaba, New South Wales
About Reading Habit
Dealers in quality secondhand books, operating online and at local markets. We offer recycled book titles at up to 70% off original retail prices. We have over 30,000 books in stock.
Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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