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Bald Headed Aft: An Etching by Levon West
by Farnham, Frank R
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. First edition of Bald Headed Aft by Frank Farnham. Thin octavo, 6pp. Blue boards, white vellum spine, title in gilt on spine. Frontispiece portrait of fishing vessel by Levon West, with tissue cover. No dust jacket, as issued. Light shelf wear to boards, otherwise near fine. From a small but unstated limited edition.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2268
- Title
- Bald Headed Aft: An Etching by Levon West
- Author
- Farnham, Frank R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Edwin Rudge
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- first edition Bald Headed Aft
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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