Freight Dogs
de Foden, Giles
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG++/VG++/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0297868012
- ISBN 13
- 9780297868019
- Librería
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2021.* Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. * Binding and cover condition: Dark green cloth covered boards, red metallic titles to spine only. No bumps or rubs, some minor wear to head and tail of spine, no other visible faults. VG++.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a plane over a forest. Yellow and white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £18.99. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Small nick to lower edge, now re-inforced and in an un-attached clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Small neat dedication to front paste-down. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 400 pp. text. xi pp. acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: 1996: In a Ugandan dive bar, the freight dogs gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warning African nations, without allegiance. And tonight they have a new recruit ? Manu, a 19-year old cowherd fleeing Congo's bloody war. Taken in by this band of unlikely brothers, he is soon seeing his vast country from above and falling in love with flying. But no matter how fast he flies, trouble follows closely behind. And when the past erupts back into his new life, Manu is forced to leave behind African skies for the chilly embrace of northern Europe. Will Manu be able to re-invent himself yet again?* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. with minimal faults. Now in a clear un-attached protective jacket.*
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Detalles
- Librería
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 9729
- Título
- Freight Dogs
- Autor
- Foden, Giles
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG++/VG++/VG+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st. Edn. Thus, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0297868012
- ISBN 13
- 9780297868019
- Editorial
- W&N
- Lugar de publicación
- London UK. 411
- Fecha de publicación
- 2021-09-16
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
Sobre Cocksparrow Books
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- New
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