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No Longer Wings to Fly
by James Kinross
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
$38.00$30.40
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949 Book. Good. Blue Cloth Boards. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Personal account of a Second World War officer's return to England after being held in a POW camp in Germany, his diagnosis with tuberculosis and his long recovery. 253pp. Gilt lettering to spine. Some bumping to spine and corners, spine faded and foxing to edges, otherwise good reading copy..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008361
- Title
- No Longer Wings to Fly
- Author
- James Kinross
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; World Wars I and II;
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
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
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
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