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Allen. 1952. Good+/Good+.. DJ is rather grubby, with tarnish marks, rubbing and small associated loss to most edges. prior owner's details on front endpaper. pages are age-tanned, otherwise no significant faults. Octavo 194pp. Following the fall of Singapore the Dutch liner Rosenboom left Padang for Ceylon carrying on board nearly 500 evacuees who were mostly British civilians and soldiers. Shortly after leaving port the ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank so rapidly that only one lifeboat floated into which 135 people were crammed. The boat drifted for 28 days and covered over 1,000 miles but when eventually it grounded near Sumatra, only the author and three others had managed to survive
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- Bookseller
- lobstabooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42498
- Title
- THE BOAT
- Author
- GIBSON, Walter:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Allen. 1952
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.