THE PRAYING SKIPPER, AND OTHER STORIES
by Paine, Ralph
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
The Outing Publishing Company, 1906. hard cover. Good. New York; The Outing Publishing Company, 1906. Decorated hardcover, no dj. Illustrated. 292pp. Good condition. Boards and spine are moderately shelfworn/soiled, with some fabric fraying at the extremities. Some stains to the page edges, and a bit cocked. Light foxing, primarily to the endpapers, but occasional spots throughout. Very small dampstain to top page edge afftecting pp75-118. Binding is secure but with a little play to it. A collection of seven maritime stories. (cfm)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23054
- Title
- THE PRAYING SKIPPER, AND OTHER STORIES
- Author
- Paine, Ralph
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Outing Publishing Company
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- MARITIME,LITERATURE,FICTION
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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"...
- 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....