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Caribbean Cruise
by Kate and Richard Bertram
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/See Description
- Seller
-
Cazenovia, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
1948 first edition hardcover as pictured. The story of a five year sailing cruise down the east coast of the United States, across the Bahama banks and through the greater and lesser Antilles. Includes 15 halftones, five charts and an extensive appendix descibing islands, ports and equipment. Binding is firm. Blue cloth boards with black and gold stamping show only light edge wear. Pictorial endpapers are lightly tanned. Owner's name on FFEP. Text appears clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is faded over spine and price clipped with multiple small tears and chips at edges. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OD3
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Details
- Bookseller
- Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3042
- Title
- Caribbean Cruise
- Author
- Kate and Richard Bertram
- Format/Binding
- See Description
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Jacket Condition
- See Description
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Pages
- 292
- Size
- 5.5 x 8
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Sailing, Cruising, Caribbean
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sailing;
Terms of Sale
Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library
Return guarantee with full refund, including shipping costs, for up to 14 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library
Biblio member since 2018
Cazenovia, New York
About Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library
We are a group of volunteers supporting our local library. All proceeds go to the library. We strive for excellent customer service. Please contact us with any questions. If you are in the area you may also visit our store, Carriage Barn Books, adjacent to the library at 100 Albany Street Cazenovia NY
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- 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....
- Price Clipped
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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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
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