Along the Maine Coast.
by MITCHELL, Dorothy, and W. N. WILSON
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover, octavo, pp. 97. Illustrated with 6 color paintings; 27 black & white water colors; and endpaper maps. Very good in the publisher's beige cloth with blue upper panel lighthouse vignette and an attractive gilt & blue spine lettering arrangement. Good only dust jacket just a little weary from pre-mylar days, with light chipping at fold points & a sun-related discoloration at middle of the rear panel. Jacket now protected in a sheet of archival mylar.
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Details
- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000721
- Title
- Along the Maine Coast.
- Author
- MITCHELL, Dorothy, and W. N. WILSON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill, [1947].
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maine; Travel;
Terms of Sale
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
14 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 14 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed.
About the Seller
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Biblio member since 2013
ELLSWORTH, Maine
About T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.
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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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...