THE ADVENTURES OF A POST CAPTAIN
by A Naval Officer (Thornton, Alfred)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Oneonta, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Methuen and Company, 1904. This antique, 4.5"x7" hard cover book has a red cover with gilt lettering on the spine of the cover. Fair condition; there is foxing throughout, spine wear, edgewear, soil and the front cover has discoloration towards the outer edge. 214 pages. Nautical themed long poem. Reprint of the 1820 edition with twenty-five delightful color plates by Mr. Williams.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Mr. Williams. 4.5 x 7.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Popeks Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 93443
- Title
- THE ADVENTURES OF A POST CAPTAIN
- Author
- A Naval Officer (Thornton, Alfred)
- Illustrator
- Mr. Williams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Methuen and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1904
- Size
- 4.5 x 7
- Keywords
- Poetry Antiquarian Illustrated Nautical
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Popeks Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2003
Oneonta, New York
About Popeks Books, IOBA
Store located at 356 Main Street in Otego, NY
Glossary
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- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....