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Adventures & Perils: Being extracts from the 100-years-old Mariner’s Chronicle and other sources descriptive of Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea
by C. Fox Smith (editor)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Michael Joseph Ltd, 1936. 1st. Hardback. Good. First edition hardback, 1936, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with some minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards rubbed to edges and spine tanned. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - Wellington Boys High School bookplate to front pastedown; toning to page-ends with light scattered foxing here and there but text bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.
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- Bookseller
- Hall of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230768
- Title
- Adventures & Perils: Being extracts from the 100-years-old Mariner’s Chronicle and other sources descriptive of Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea
- Author
- C. Fox Smith (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph Ltd
- Date Published
- 1936
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Auto/Biography; Travel / General;
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Oswestry, Shropshire
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