BOMBER.**
by DEIGHTON**, LEN:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near FINE./VG.
- ISBN 10
- 0224619101
- ISBN 13
- 9780224619103
- Seller
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PLYMOUTH., Devon, United Kingdom
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About This Item
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.Owner anniverserial, presentation inscrptn to ffe,and price-clip to dw/dj.Wrap-around,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj,by Raymond Hawkey,reproducing a detail from Turner's painting,'Fishermen at Sea off the Needles'; with negligible shelf-wear to edges.Chipping+rubbing to foot of spine/ backstrip with some minimal loss,similar to front,inner flap's outer edge.Closed tears/nicks to head of spine/
backstrip,with some minimal loss too and chipping/ rubbing and creasing to top edges of dw/dj. Top edge coloured red,fore-edges lightly aged/toned - as usual/ normal; contents bright,tight,solid and sound and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips. Lightly spotted/marked but generally clean,publisher's sharp-cornered,original,plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj, 1st edn,9-493pp [paginated] includes 34 chapters+ epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and author note.
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Synopsis
The classic novel of the Second World War that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour story of an allied bombing raid.Bomber is a novel war. There are no victors, no vanquished. There are simply those who remain alive, and those who die.Bomber follows the progress of an Allied air raid through a period of twenty-four hours in the summer of 1943. It portrays all the participants in a terrifying drama, both in the air and on the ground, in Britain and in Germany.In its documentary style, it is unique. In its emotional power it is overwhelming.Len Deighton has been equally acclaimed as a novelist and as an historian. In Bomber he has combined both talents to produce a masterpiece.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- rja432912
- Title
- BOMBER.**
- Author
- DEIGHTON**, LEN:
- Book Condition
- Used - Near FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- VG.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224619101
- ISBN 13
- 9780224619103
- Publisher
- LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,1980.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1970
- Keywords
- q52.MODERN FIRSTS2.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0224619101.WW2 RAF Fiction.Books new,used,signed,rare.
- Bookseller catalogs
- MODERN FIRSTS2;
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