Brave Old Salt or Life on the Quarterdeck ; A Story of the Great Rebellion
by Oliver Optic (William Taylor Adams)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hurst & Company. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1911. reprint. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 301 pages; Circa 1911 Hurst & Company. HC/DJ Dated by 1911 gift inscription to front endpage. Early reprint in original pictorial dust jacket. Soundly bound in original mauve colored cloth with color lithograph pictorial title panel mounted to the cover board; titles in gilt to spine. In original (and quite uncommon) early pictorial dust jacket. Jacket is missing the lower 1.5" from the spine panel, has some light general rubbing with tiny chips and short tears to edges, and is a bit toned and shelf soiled. Hurst catalog printed to rear jacket panel.Cloth lightly rubbed at edges; page block edges a little shelf soiled. VG-/G .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36150
- Title
- Brave Old Salt or Life on the Quarterdeck ; A Story of the Great Rebellion
- Author
- Oliver Optic (William Taylor Adams)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- Hurst & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1911
- Bookseller catalogs
- Early Dust Jackets;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
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