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Sailing to Freedom
de Veedam, Voldeman & Carl B. Wall
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- Librería
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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Sobre este artículo
London: Phoenix House. Good in Fair dust jacket. (1953). Hardcover. Spine with slanting and concavity. Large tear to blank lower margin of one leaf (pages 225-6). Loss of upper 60mm of rear panel of dust-jacket, with loss to advertisement. ; Fourth impression, in same year as the first printing. 255, [1 (blank)] pages + 7 photographic illustrations on 2 plate leaves. Maps on endpapers. Full page plan "Scale Drawing of the Erma" on 1 paginated leaf. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 135mm. "No one, not even an N.K.V.D. Agent, watching the Erma's departure from a small Swedish port, could have supposed it to be the beginning of a transatlantic crossing A family picnic trip, yes; but a sea trip of 8,000 miles with 16 men, women and children aboard an old sloop made for four [. . .] Exiled Estonians these people were, ordered to return to their Russian-controlled native country; they chose instead to sail for freedom - and hunger sailed with them. From port to port they staggered on. They were showered with kindness in Scotland, and the Irish went wild about them." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 24683
- Título
- Sailing to Freedom
- Autor
- Veedam, Voldeman & Carl B. Wall
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Editorial
- Phoenix House
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- (1953)
Términos de venta
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
Sobre el vendedor
Renaissance Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
Sobre Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Jacket
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- Blurb
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- Leaves
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Fair
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- Cloth
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