THE SHIPS AND SAILORS OF OLD SALEM, THE RECORD OF A BRILLIANT ERA OF AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT
by Paine, Ralph
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
The Outing Publishing Company, 1909. hard cover. Very Good. New York; The Outing Publishing Company, 1909. Illustrated with b/w photographs. xv+693pp. Hardcover, no dj. Deckled edges. VG- condition. Brown cloth boards lightly rubbed with very slight fraying at tips. Gilt titling bright on cover, a bit faded on spine. Pencilled bookseller marks on ffep, and foxing to title page and frontis. Age toned, but otherwise clean and unmarked. "This book has to do with the deeds of a race of red-blooded Americans who brought honor to ther flag and renown to their nation during the era of its struggle for very existence. They tell their own stories, how they sailed and fought and traded in seas the whole world round, where no other American ships had been." (cfm)
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- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23051
- Title
- THE SHIPS AND SAILORS OF OLD SALEM, THE RECORD OF A BRILLIANT ERA OF AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT
- Author
- Paine, Ralph
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Outing Publishing Company
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- MARITIME,SALEM,SAILING
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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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