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The Book of Old Ships and Something of Their Evolution and Romance
by Culver, Henry B
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good (in mylar)
- Seller
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1935. Age toning down the gutters and end papers, else textblock is clean and tight. Illustrated end papers. Light blue top page edges. Bright blue cloth, bumped at the corners and the head and foot of spine, faint sunning to spine and edges. Clipped and sunned dust jacket, chipping to the corners of the spine, creased corners, soiled spine and less so to the covers, wear to the edges, surface scuffed. 306pp.. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Good (in mylar). Illus. by Gordon Grant Drawings. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB15398
- Title
- The Book of Old Ships and Something of Their Evolution and Romance
- Author
- Culver, Henry B
- Illustrator
- Gordon Grant Drawings
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good (in mylar)
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Ships, Ships Descriptions, ships Development, Nautical, Origins of Shipping, Old Ships
- Bookseller catalogs
- Naval/Nautical;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
Clausen Books, RMABA
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
Established July 1, 1946. Member- Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association. Now exclusively on-line. Used - Old - Rare - Out-of-print - Antiquarian; CERTIFIED APPRAISALS * Visit our homepage at www.clausenbooks.com
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
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