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The Swordbearers: Studies in Supreme Command in the First World War
by Correlli Barnett
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1963. First Edition. 386 pages. Laminated dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white photographic plates and maps throughout. Maps across endpapers. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some water staining to textblock edge. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping and mild rubbing and marking. Some staining to edges and spine ends. Spine tanned and sunned.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1693821065MXP
- Title
- The Swordbearers: Studies in Supreme Command in the First World War
- Author
- Correlli Barnett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Date Published
- 1963
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- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- 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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