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The Modern Mariner: A Navigational Warning to Beginners
by Norman Mansbridge
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Muller, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Norman Mansbridge. Size: Small Octavo. 66 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage, other than foxing here and there. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges foxed and browned. Illustrator: Norman Mansbridge. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Humour; Ships & the Sea. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 31411. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31411
- Title
- The Modern Mariner: A Navigational Warning to Beginners
- Author
- Norman Mansbridge
- Illustrator
- Norman Mansbridge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Muller
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Humour; Ships & the Sea. Norman Mansbridge Norman Mansbridge The Modern Mariner: A Navigational Warning to Beginners
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ships & the Sea; Humour;
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Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
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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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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