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Young Drake of Devon
by Dawlish, Peter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1954. Silver title on blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with just a touch of light wear to spine head and tail. Internally there are indentaions left from erased pencilled name to front endpaper, light foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete with wear and chipping to top and bottom, particulary to spine. Coloured frontispiece. An imaginative reconstruction, based on the few available facts, of Sir Francis Drake's young life. It tells how the young Drake, whose home was a derelict man of war lying in Gillingham shipyard, first went to sea on board a small trading vessel and how it's captain played an active part in the movement to restore Protestantism to England and conjectures that it was during these voyages that his lifelong hatred of the Spanish was bred. B2D. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Goldring Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010875
- Title
- Young Drake of Devon
- Author
- Dawlish, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, GILLINGHAM SHIPYARD, PROTESTANTISM
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction;
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
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