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The Life and Character of Stephen Decatur, Late Commodore and Post-captain in Navy of the United States, and Navy Commissioner, Interspersed with Brief Notices of the Origin, Progress, and Achievements of the American Navy
by Waldo, S. Putnam
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Middletown, CT: Clark & Lyman. Fair. 1822. 2nd Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Brown full leather binding rubbed at extremities; front board detached & rear board nearly so, though textblock quite firm; boards soiled; red leather backstrip label chipped; ink & pencil notes to paste-downs & endpapers; rear endpaper missing; front free endpaper chipped at top corner; leaf edges, endpapers, and a few leaves foxed & soiled, now protected in paper-backed cloth dj. ; Black & white illustrations.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 378 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41268
- Title
- The Life and Character of Stephen Decatur, Late Commodore and Post-captain in Navy of the United States, and Navy Commissioner, Interspersed with Brief Notices of the Origin, Progress, and Achievements of the American Navy
- Author
- Waldo, S. Putnam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- 2nd Edition, Revised
- Publisher
- Clark & Lyman
- Place of Publication
- Middletown, CT
- Date Published
- 1822
- Keywords
- Early American History, American Revolutionary War, US Navy History
Terms of Sale
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
About Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Open shop with over 125,000 volumes. We try to maintain a good selection in all categories and have a fondness for the odd & obscure. Specialties include History, Nature, Literature, Religion, Mystery, SF, Art, Children's, Humor, Indiana
Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
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