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Last Glencannon Omnibus Including The Canny Mr. Glencannon and Mr. Glencannon Ignores the War
by Gilpatric, Guy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Good+
- Seller
-
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1953. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. This third and last omnibus volume contains more stories about the famous skipper of the S.S. Inchcliffe Castle, comprising ten stories originally included in "The Canny Mr. Glencannon" and the long novelette, "Mr. Glencannon Ignores the War." This omnibus also contains an introductory appreciation of Guy Gilpatric by Barnaby Conrad. Blue cloth with dark blue titling on spine, dark blue illustration on front, 157 pages. Cover is uniformly speckled with tiny, pale spots, light edge wear, text block edges darkened, upper and leading text block edges have multiple foxing spots, end papers foxed, occasional small spots or foxing spots in text, binding is tight. Dust jacket, which has been price-clipped, has edge wear, shelf wear, sunned spine, overall foxing. Book may have a slight musty odour. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Details
- Bookseller
- Black Sheep Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016709
- Title
- Last Glencannon Omnibus Including The Canny Mr. Glencannon and Mr. Glencannon Ignores the War
- Author
- Gilpatric, Guy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- FICTION, SEA STORIES, MARITIME,
Terms of Sale
Black Sheep Books
Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.
About the Seller
Black Sheep Books
Biblio member since 2004
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
About Black Sheep Books
We are an independent, locally-owned shop dedicated to books and the people who love them. Here you will find two floors packed with volumes of enduring value, including familiar favourites, contemporary fiction, guides, books of local interest, and non-fiction titles covering everything from outer space to inner peace. We also have marine charts, art cards, unique prints, hand-crafted bags, and many other intriguing items. Located at Grace Point Square in the Village of Ganges, close to marinas and Salt Spring\'s renowned Saturday Market, we are open every day except Christmas and New Year\'s. If you want to pick-up a book you saw online, please call or e-mail ahead as many of our listings are kept in a separate storage facility.
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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....
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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