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Bandits Above
by Bennet, W.R
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Ordinary/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Horwitz Publications, Melbourne, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Ordinary/No Dust Jacket. 130 pages. Illustrated front cover, showing 2 fighter planes and the German U-boat, against a white background with black, yellow and blue writing on the front panel and black and blue on the spine. The book is rubbed, faded and the white of the background has become yellowed and dull. Rubbing and creasing to all corners of the book and to the head and to the heel of the spine. There is a crease running the spine length and the lower lefthand corner of the front panel, the spine gutter, has a very small split. The covers of the book all show show handling marks. Browning and foxing to the paper edges and to the endpapers. Internal pages showed tanning and the occasional foxing spot. A pulp fiction novel set during World War II about Australian Fighter Pilots and a German U-boat. Part of the Horwitz Publications Series -- this being number 19. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: History; Aviation; Fiction -- Vintage; Pulp Fiction; Australia; Military History -- World War II. Inventory No: 0103514. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0103514
- Title
- Bandits Above
- Author
- Bennet, W.R
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Ordinary
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Horwitz Publications
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Pulp Fiction -- War -- Australian, Horwitz Publications -- Number 19, Vintage Paperback History; Aviation; Fiction -- Vintage; Pulp Fiction; Australia; Military History -- World War II. Unbranded Bennet, W.R. Bandits Above
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation; Fiction -- Vintage; Military History -- World War II; Pulp Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
Glossary
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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.
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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