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With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916-1917
by One of its Officers [Blampied, Captain H John]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bombay; Times Press, 1918., 1918. Hard Cover. Second Impression, produced in September following First Edition publication in May of the same year. Octavo. [1], 165 pp. Frontispiece of General Sir Stanley Maude and His Staff plus numerous plates and maps throughout. Book Condition: Good. Publishers' navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Spine sunned with rubbed tips. Gatherings loose but complete. Endpapers toned & foxed; a few fingermarks and corner creases otherwise contents clean. No annotation or inscriptions. First hand account by an officer of the Black Watch, later attributed to Captain H John Blampied. Roll of Honour and Casualty list to rear.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5086
- Title
- With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916-1917
- Author
- One of its Officers [Blampied, Captain H John]
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bombay; Times Press, 1918.
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- Military
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About the Seller
Keel Row Books
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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- 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....
- 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...
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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