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Captain Moses Rich Colman
by Addie Cushing Colman
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Captain Moses Rich Colman, Master Mariner, Scituate, Massachusetts, 1807-1872 Letters of a Yankee Clipper Ship Captain, 119 pages, heavily illustrated with black and white photogrpahs, maps and documents, great vintage frontispiece photo of Captain Colman, privately published and printed by Antoensen Press, Book is near Fine, very clean blue cloth with bright gilt titles to spine, No previous owner bookplate or writing. A very clean and most presentable First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001316
- Title
- Captain Moses Rich Colman
- Author
- Addie Cushing Colman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Anthoensen Press
- Place of Publication
- Portland, Maine
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Clipper Ships, Maritime History, Clipper Ship Captains
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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- Bookplate
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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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...
- Cloth
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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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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