Clipper Ship Men
by Laing, Alexander
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
North Tonawanda, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed "For Herb West bookman" and signed by author facing title page. Blue cloth with trace soil and lightly bumped spine ends. Jacket in archival plastic protectoris moderately chipped and torn mostly at corners and spine ends; flaps not clipped. Binding sound, text clean. Previous owner name to ffep. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9246
- Title
- Clipper Ship Men
- Author
- Laing, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan & Pearce
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Nautical, Navigation
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Old Editions Inc.
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North Tonawanda, New York
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- First Edition
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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...
- Flap(s)
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
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