The Sea Witch
by Laing, Alexander
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Murray Hill, 1944., 1944. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth covered boards. Endpapers illustrated with sketch maps of the routes of voyage by the author. Top edge stained yellow. 487pp. Sixteen illustrations by Gordon Grant with six full page full color plates. First illustrated edition. A remarkably well-preserved copy. A very tight, fresh, bright, clean, unmarked and apparently unread volume in a tight, sharp, crisp,exceptionally bright and clean dust jacket with two small millimeter thick scratches (one 1/4" and one 1"). Fine in near fine dust jacket. With the exception of the dust jacket scratches, virtually AS NEW..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 05157
- Title
- The Sea Witch
- Author
- Laing, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- New York: Murray Hill, 1944.
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- LAING, GRANT, ALEXANDER, GORDON, ILLUSTRATED, ILLUSTRATOR, SEA WITCH, SAIL, SAILING, SHIP, MERCHANT, CLIPPER, TALL SAILOR, RACING, RACE, ORIENT, NEW ENGLAND, YANKEE, AMERICA, AMERICAN, MAP, VOYAGE, CHINA, SAN FRANCISCO, YORK, PACIFIC, ATLANTIC, TEA, MARIN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime;
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Brillig Books
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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