An Old-Time Fishing Town: Eyemouth, Its History, Romance & Tragedy with an Account of The East Coast Disaster October 1881
by MCIVER, DANIEL
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
James McKelvie & Sons 1906. Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + 356pp, illus, VG- (some fraying to spine extrems & board corners, light scuffing to boards, some browning to page edges, front hinge cracking, moderate foxing to eps)
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- Title
- An Old-Time Fishing Town: Eyemouth, Its History, Romance & Tragedy with an Account of The East Coast Disaster October 1881
- Author
- MCIVER, DANIEL
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James McKelvie & Sons 1906
- Keywords
- Eyemouth history East Coast shipping disaster
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...