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The Music of Five Oceans
by A. A. Hurst
- Used
- Fine
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Macmillian Company, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. First Edition of epic voyages full of sea lore, mythology, superstitution and curious experience. Square rigged sail boat adventure with authors photographs, 160 pages including a glossary of sea terms. Book: Fine, black cloth with gilt titles, tight square with sharp corners, never read condition, NO previous owner bookplate or writing. Jacket: Very Good with color photo on front panel of sailing ship in full sail, 3 closed tears but hardyt noticeable, $4.95 price intact and jacket protected in mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000111
- Title
- The Music of Five Oceans
- Author
- A. A. Hurst
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillian Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Sailing,
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
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