Doubleday, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1931, first edition. 314 pages. Gray cloth boards with red titling and decoration. Spine is slightly shaken but sturdy. Binding intact. Dust jacket shows rubbing to the edges and scuffing throughout, with age toning and light edgewear throughout. Three closed tears to center front panel of DJ, in the shape of three sides of a square; fourth side creased. Cover price $2.50, covered by a Mylar sleeve. Bookplate at front paste down and front free paper, contemporary bookseller's ticket to FFEP. Pages show faint age toning, but are otherwise clean.

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Bookseller: The Book Bin (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BBS-0770312
Title: A Young Man at Sea (1931)
Author: Laurie, Maxwell
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 1931
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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...
Shaken: A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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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...
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....