Salts of the Sound: The Story of Steamboating on Long Island Sound from 1815 to Present
by McAdam, Roger Williams
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Stephen Daye Press. Used - Very Good. 1939. Cloth, dj, octavo, 247 pp. Dj has extensive tears and chipping, with sunning to spine. Book itself is Very Good, with tight binding and clean bright pages. (Subject: Americana & Regional History.)
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BR16770
- Title
- Salts of the Sound: The Story of Steamboating on Long Island Sound from 1815 to Present
- Author
- McAdam, Roger Williams
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Stephen Daye Press
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Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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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.
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...