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The Jervis Bay Goes Down by Fowler, Gene - 1941

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The Jervis Bay Goes Down by Fowler, Gene - 1941

The Jervis Bay Goes Down

by Fowler, Gene

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New York: Random House, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth. 24 pp. Sunning to top and tail edges of boards, light bruising to tail edge. Acid migration to endpapers. Front hinge started. Darkening to gutter at title page. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned and rubbed to extremities, chipped to spine ends. Based on the New York Tribune account of the sinking of the Jervis Bay, November 5, 1940.
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  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Random House
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1941
  • Keywords History, boats, ship sinking, Gene Fowler, poetry

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The Jervis Bay Goes Down

by Gene Fowler

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Random House, 1941. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NY: Random House, 1941. Thin Book - 24 pages. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.
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Random House, January 1941. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. Dust cover missing Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.
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Random House, 1941-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Cover and edges shows shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.
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New York: Random House, 1941. Second Printing . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Light wear/soiling, unmarked. Jacket shows minimal wear, yellowing. Special edition published by Random House to benefit the WWII "Bundles for Britain" program. All royalties were donated. Narrative poem bound in flexible cloth covers.
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NY: Random House; (1941). First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Slight residue at edges of jacket and endpapers from old black-lined jacket protector. The jacket spine is also slightly sunned. A poem about the incident in November 1941 when the British ship Jervis Bay fought a German battleship to allow the escape of many other ships in the convoy.
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New York: Random House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1941. First Printing. Hardcover. Approx. 5 1/2" wide by 8 1/8". DJ pieces included. ; 24 pages .
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New York: Random House, 1941. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 24 pages. ; 5 3/8 x 8 1/8
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NY: Random House, 1941 1st ed., 1st Prtg, 1941. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Flexbound. Good/No Jacket. Octavo, flex bound in blue cloth boards. Cover lightly faded and worn. Interior VG. No dj the sinking of this armed merchant cruiser by the Nazis. 24 pp. The poetry and newspaper account of one of the most heroic episodes relating to WW II. The Jervis Bay, an old liner sacrificed herself deliberately in a hopeless encounter with a Nazi battleship. The poem was first read on radio by Ronald Colman, both the newspaper account and the poem are a tribute to the ship.
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