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A Contribution To The Bibliography Of The History Of The United States Navy
by Harbeck, Charles T
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, 1906. Limited First Edition. Good+ in dark blue cloth covered boards with a printed paper label on the spine. The paper label has tanned but there is no chipping and is only rubbed at its edges. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is worn and rubbed and just beginning to fray at the head of the spine. Without its issued dust jacket. This copy is identified as number 256 out of only 350 copies printed. 247 pages including an index. Many of the pages remain unopened. The book is organized according to historical events.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB21141
- Title
- A Contribution To The Bibliography Of The History Of The United States Navy
- Author
- Harbeck, Charles T
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Limited First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Mass.
- Date Published
- 1906
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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- 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
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- Good+
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Cloth
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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....
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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