SHIP'S COMPANY
by Jacobs, W. W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paternoster Row, London: Hodder & Stoughton. Decorative Cloth. Near Good/No Jacket. Owen, Will. Hilarious Nautical Stories. Illustrated with B&W In-Text Illustrations by Will Owen. (Frontis Illustration shows 2 men asking a Policemen the distance to Clapham.) Undated Edition, early 20th C. Red cloth cover Illustrated with black drawing of a man rowing a boatload of people from a Ship.Harbour scene on spine with Gilt lettering above. 272 Pages, 450g, 7 3/4" Tall. Front free endpaper missing. Some edge wear and a little fraying at spine corners. Bottom corner bumped. Pages in good, clean condition. Front hinge cracked & reinforced with white hinge tape. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornish Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012428
- Title
- SHIP'S COMPANY
- Author
- Jacobs, W. W
- Illustrator
- Owen, Will
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- Paternoster Row, London
- Keywords
- FICTION/HUMOUR & CARTOONS/HUMOR/MARITIME/SEA-FARING/SEA STORIES/ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Cornish Books
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Penzance, Cornwall
About Cornish Books
Online Bookseller since 2008, in Penzance, Cornwall.We are a small family business and offer a personal service.Always in stock is a good selection of Cornish Interest Books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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