Ultramarine
by Lowry Malcom
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto, Canada: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue Hardcover with bold gilt titles to the spine. Near Fine, tight, bright & unmarked. The DJ is unclipped, Very Good with cover edgewear, wear to the spine ends. "Ultramarine is the story of Dana Hilliot's first voyage, as mess-boy on the freighter Oedipus Tyrannus bound for Bombay and Singapore: of his struggle to win the approval of his shipmates, trying to match their example in the bars and bordellos of the Chinese ports while at the same time remaining faithful to his first love, Janet, back home in England. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 203 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26181
- Title
- Ultramarine
- Author
- Lowry Malcom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Canada
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Fiction > Sea Stories, Sailors, LITERATURE
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About the Seller
Bytown Bookery
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Vars, Ontario
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....