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The Ocean Waifs; a Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
by Reid, Captain Mayne; with a Memoir By R.H. Stoddard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Worthington Co., 1889. Ex-library copy, usual stamps, stickers, labels, and markings, some minor age toning to the edges, else textblock is clean and exceptionally tight, floral decorative end pages. All page edges are a bit toned. Green cloth with black and gilt embossing to front cover and spine, bump and worn spine extremities; Moderately scuffed and edge-worn boards; 366p.. New Edition. Embossed Cloth. Good+. Illus. by Plates. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover.
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Details
- Seller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SB10962
- Title
- The Ocean Waifs; a Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
- Author
- Reid, Captain Mayne; with a Memoir By R.H. Stoddard
- Illustrator
- Plates
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- Worthington Co.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- Ocean Waifs, Land and Sea Fiction, Land and Sea Adventure, Sea Adventure, Sea Fiction, Captain Mayne Reid, Fiction, Juvenile Literature, Young Readers Fiction, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure; Children's;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Clausen Books, RMABA
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
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