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The navy, a history;: The story of a service in action,
by Pratt, Fletcher
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Boonsboro, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Garden City Pub. Co., inc, 1/1/1941. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x2. Rebound in mid-20th century red leather. Gilt spine. 4 raised bands. Good binding and cover. 4 preliminary leaves, xi-xvi, [2], 496 (i.e. 504) pages illustrations (including music) plates 23 cm. Shelfwear. Clean, unmarked pages. From the personal library of Vice Admiral Calvin Thornton Durgin Durgin served in the U.S. Navy from 1916 until 1951. He served as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air in 1949. In WWII Durgin commanded the aircraft carrier, Ranger during an assault on Morocco and commanded a carrier group during the 1944 invasion of southern France. Durgin's book plate on front paste down. Durgin's name stamped in gold on front cover.
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- Bookseller
- SequiturBooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1505050241
- Title
- The navy, a history;: The story of a service in action,
- Author
- Pratt, Fletcher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Garden City Pub. Co., inc
- Date Published
- 1/1/1941
- Size
- 9x6x2
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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...
- 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....
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