Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1968. Second printing, Book Condition: good. Gray cloth boards with red sun, black illustration on cover, black letters on spine. Red map endsheets and 364 clean, pages. Top edge tinted dark gray, fore-edge rough cut slightly tanned. Binding feels a little wobbly, but pages and boards still attached. Back board fold area starting to tear on paper. Dust Jacket. Poor due to wear along edges, folds and surface. Tape on back. Original price inside front flap. Synopsis: An account of the fall of Singapore concentrating on the experiences of the civilian inhabitants. Inside still a good, clean, bright, reading copy.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fair to Good/Poor.

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Bookseller: BookTown USA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 8002750
Title: A Sinister Twilight the fall of Singapore 1942
Author: Barber, Noel
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair to Good
Jacket Condition: Poor
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Second Printing
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1968
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs: History-Military;

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...

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