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Island Of Terrible Friends
by Strutton, Bill
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1961. A true story about Major James Rickett and the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War. Blue cloth, gilt text on spine. Endpaper Maps. 192pp. Minor fading to spine extending to part of front cover, gilt crisp. Internally clean with square, tight binding. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- All Booked
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000576
- Title
- Island Of Terrible Friends
- Author
- Strutton, Bill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- World War Two Royal Army Medical Corps German-Occupied Territory Military Hospital True-Story Major James Rickett
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - General;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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