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Civil War Ironclads: The Dawn of Naval Armor (signed)
by MacBride, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; G+/fair; off-white with brown spine and black text; first edition; dust jacket exterior shows noticeable wear, probably due to handling; ex-library sticker to spine; tape mends to head and tail edges; one or two other chips to edges; price clipped front flap; original red cloth has very light wear; solid, tight binding; text block exterior edges have mild toning; gift inscriptions to ffep; interior clean; illustrated; pp 185; signed by author. 1363328. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Details
- Seller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1363328
- Title
- Civil War Ironclads: The Dawn of Naval Armor (signed)
- Author
- MacBride, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chilton Books Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia and New York
- Date Published
- 1962
Terms of Sale
Second Story Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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Glossary
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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....
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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