HOME FROM THE SEA
by Rostron, Sir Arthur
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York:The Macmillan Company, 1931. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:The Macmillan Company. 1931. 1st edition. 259pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Tan covers soiled and edge points worn. Internally, end-pages are age toned, and slightly sticky from glue residue where a large previous owners bookplate has fallen off the 1st free end-page. Prelims are foxed but otherwise, aside from some minor age-toning and a couple spots of foxing sprinkled throughout, a very good, clean copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact. *Titanic related as Author was captain of the Carpathia, which responded to the distress call, rescuing 710 survivors.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23714
- Title
- HOME FROM THE SEA
- Author
- Rostron, Sir Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York:The Macmillan Company
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- MARITIME; TITANIC; SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON; CARPATHIA; MEMOIR;
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
Biblio member since 2016
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...