Ships and How They Sailed the Seven Seas (5000 BC - AD 1935)
by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Simon and Schuster, 1935. Hardcover. Good. 1935. No edition remarks. 311 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are mildly tanned with light foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Visible thumb-marking present. Mild droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to surfaces. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1707920393ADA
- Title
- Ships and How They Sailed the Seven Seas (5000 BC - AD 1935)
- Author
- Hendrik Willem Van Loon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Date Published
- 1935
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....