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Island of Terrible Friends
de Strutton, Bill
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Bien/Good
- Librería
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Biro -- Front Cover. author's note. Map illustrated endpapers, the larger showing the western Mediterranean area and a small map of Yugoslavia and it is small offshore islands. Navy blue coloured cloth boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, by Biro, with brown and black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Novelisation of the events that occurred to Dr James Rickett and his other compatriots on the small Yugoslavian island of Vis in the years 1944 through to the end of World War II. Vis was an island surrounded by a German occupied territory and was expected to fall to the Germans at any moment. The island was protected by Yugoslavian partisans and 50 commandos. Dr Rickett went there to set up a hospital, and did so, despite red tape, no supplies and little outside help. Bumping and rubbing to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Rubbing to the book edges and to the book panels. Faint browning and to the text block edges and light age toning of the internal text. A few marks to the endpapers. Previous owner's name to the top edge of the free front endpaper and to the title page. Rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges and noticeable rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. Browning to the rear dustwrapper panel and clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VI, 7-192 pages,. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Biro -- Front Cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Medicine; Fiction -- Military; Australia; Inventory No: 0108135. .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0108135
- Título
- Island of Terrible Friends
- Autor
- Strutton, Bill
- Ilustrador
- Biro -- Front Cover
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1961
- Palabras clave
- BZDB2 Novel -- World War II -- Yugoslavia -- Island of Vis, Medical Fiction; Medicine; Fiction -- Military; Australia; Biro -- Front Cover Unbranded Strutton, Bill Island of Terrible Friends
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Medicine; Fiction -- Military;
Términos de venta
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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Sobre el vendedor
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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melbourne, Victoria
Sobre Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
