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HALF SEAS UNDER Seaman Submariner Canoeist
by McLean, Ruari
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0901281271
- ISBN 13
- 9780901281272
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
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About This Item
United Kingdom: Thomas Reed Publications. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 0901281271 . Very Good 1st Edition hardcover in Very Good dustjacket. Clean black cloth boards. Combined Operations Pilotage Parties insignia stamped in gilt to front board. Light bumping to spine ends. Spine slightly cocked. Internally, small ink bleed mark from laid in Punch cartoon to front pastedown. Dedication by co-designer to Dr. G. B. R. Feilden CBE (who worked with Sir Frank Whittle on the invention of the jet engine during WWII) to front endpaper. Signed letter from author laid in. Pages clean and bright. Unclipped dustjacket, lightly sunned to spine. Some very light edge-wear - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages; Signed by Associated .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59168
- Title
- HALF SEAS UNDER Seaman Submariner Canoeist
- Author
- McLean, Ruari
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0901281271
- ISBN 13
- 9780901281272
- Publisher
- Thomas Reed Publications
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- 0901281271
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- Cocked
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- Good+
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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