Day without Evening
by Jordan, Humfrey
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Poor
- Seller
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. Illustrator: Bip Pares -- Cover Art. 300 g.; VI, 7-240 pages. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with black titles to the front panel and backstrip. Bumping and rubbing to the backstrip and to the book corners. Some staining to the book panels and backstrip. Browning and foxing to the text block edges. Light (for age) browning of the endpapers and internal text. Illustrated dustwrapper, by Bip Pares, with red titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners and lower backstrip edge. The top half inch of the backstrip is missing. Creasing to the dustwrapper edges and there is a 0.25 " tear to the top edge of the rear dustwrapper panel. Rubbing, handling marks and fading to the dustwrapper. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over panel, lower right-hand corner. A novel that follows the lives of six children from Cornwell, four boys and two girls. Two of the boys become merchant sailors, the other two boys become public servants and the girls marry the public servants in an expectation of a never ending unchanging cycle. Three wars change the unchangeable. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Bip Pares -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Fiction -- Maritime; Inventory No: 0108930. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0108930
- Title
- Day without Evening
- Author
- Jordan, Humfrey
- Illustrator
- Bip Pares -- Cover Art
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Novel -- Maritime -- Cornwell -- Saga, Bip Pares -- Cover Art, War Economy Standards Fiction; Fiction -- Maritime; Bip Pares -- Cover Art Unbranded Jordan, Humfrey Day without Evening
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction -- Maritime;
Terms of Sale
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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
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- 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...
- Text Block
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- G
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- Dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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