PICTURE BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION'S PRIVATEERS
by Wilbur, C. Keith
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0811712621
- ISBN 13
- 9780811712620
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1973. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. C. Keith Wilbur. Quarto (11 3/8" x 8 3/4"), red cloth with black lettering and ship on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) with image of ship with 3 inset ovals of equipment, profusely illustrated with B&W drawings of warship equipment by author-illustrator Keith Wilbur, Index, 96 pages. SUPERIOR COPY of this very well illustrated and written survey of weaponry, material culture, and Revolutionary war ships. Drawings remind one of Eric Sloane's work. Shiver ye timbers!<br /> <br /> Tight and clean with slight chipping to the clipped dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8904
- Title
- PICTURE BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION'S PRIVATEERS
- Author
- Wilbur, C. Keith
- Illustrator
- C. Keith Wilbur
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0811712621
- ISBN 13
- 9780811712620
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books
- Place of Publication
- Harrisburg, PA
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- navy, operations, equipment, sketches, maps, illustrated, ships, cannons, cutlasses, belaying pins.
Terms of Sale
Borg Antiquarian
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...