Shore Leave
by WAKEMAN, Frederic
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); tan boards titled in blue on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 310pp.; spine ends gently nudged; faint offsetting inside front cover; Near Fine; The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50); closed tear to lower rear panel; minor nicks and short tears, mostly to spine ends; mild rubbing to rear cover; Very Good+.
"You can't mistake them - battle-marked, gaunt, tired, proud of their worn and faded khakis. They are Navy flyers, four of them, back from Pacific combat, back in San Francisco on medical survey to check their fitness to return to their dive bombers, their fighters and their torpedo planes. This is the story of therir shore leave..." (from the dustjacket).
"You can't mistake them - battle-marked, gaunt, tired, proud of their worn and faded khakis. They are Navy flyers, four of them, back from Pacific combat, back in San Francisco on medical survey to check their fitness to return to their dive bombers, their fighters and their torpedo planes. This is the story of therir shore leave..." (from the dustjacket).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54150
- Title
- Shore Leave
- Author
- WAKEMAN, Frederic
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Social Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.