Royal Air Force 1939-1945: Volume I The Fight at Odds
by Denis Richards
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1953. 430 pages. Grey dust jacket over blue cloth. Volume I. Contains colour illustrated plates, with fold-out maps. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Occasional thumb-marking present. Fold-out plates are lightly tanned but remain in good condition. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and light marking overall. Dark rubbing to rear panel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1635500108EMB
- Title
- Royal Air Force 1939-1945: Volume I The Fight at Odds
- Author
- Denis Richards
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office
- Date Published
- 1953
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...