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Beam Ends
by Flynn, Errol
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Longmans, Green And Co., 1937. Third Printing of May, 1937. Very good- in light blue cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches with map end sheets. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is rubbed and worn with several short closed tears to the depth of the text block and the cloth is worn through over the tips of the boards. With a prior owner's name and date on the fly title page. Without its issued dust jacket. 241 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates all from black and white photographs. The story of Errol Flynn's cruise off the northwestern coast of Australia to New Guinea on his ship Sirocco with his three friends and crew members.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB33138
- Title
- Beam Ends
- Author
- Flynn, Errol
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Third Printing of May, 1937
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green And Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
Terms of Sale
Town's End Books
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
Biblio member since 2009
Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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