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To The Honor Of The Fleet
by Pilpel, Robert H
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Atheneum, 1979. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover 1979 Book Club Edition and Vintage Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Maps and Charts. Green half cloth with bright and bold gilt titles, blue boards with light sunning along upper edge, clean and unmarked, with light wear to spine head and heel edges. Book plate on paste-down. Internals in Fine Condition. A panorama of war, interweaving historical fact with imaginative storytelling, this is a story of international diplomacy, intrigue, romance during the first two years of World War I. 493 pp. 8.5" x 5.75". 1979, Atheneum, New York.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027683
- Title
- To The Honor Of The Fleet
- Author
- Pilpel, Robert H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- HISTORICAL FICTION WORLD WAR I THE GREAT
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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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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