Endless Story; Being an Account of the Work of the Destroyers, Flotilla-Leaders; Torpedo Boats in the Great War
by Taffrail, Captain Taprell Dorling
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Sidmouth, Devon, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932 Copy in blue cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Board spine lightly sunned. Jacket has stiky tape repairs to spine and blurp flap corners. Spine is sunned. Spine has liquid splash mark.Tanning to front and rear end papers. Sporadic light foxing to folio edges. Clean text with colour and b/w plates.
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- Bookseller
- Balfour Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028962
- Title
- Endless Story; Being an Account of the Work of the Destroyers, Flotilla-Leaders; Torpedo Boats in the Great War
- Author
- Taffrail, Captain Taprell Dorling
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cheap Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Endless Story; Being an Account of the Work of the Destroyers, Flotilla-Leaders; Torpedo Boats in the Great War Taffrail Military History WWI
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