San Francisco Bay
by Gilliam, Harold
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
La Mesa, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A native Californian & feature writer for the San Francisco Chronicle offers this "factual & fascinating account of the history, life, & lore of California's vital inland sea"--the Bay inside the Golden Gate, in 336 pages with map endpapers. A FIRST EDITION, first printing from 1957, this hardcover 8vo has green cloth-over boards which show spotting & rubbing to upper & lower extremities, corners crisp, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white with modest tanning to edges & some offsetting in front matter from old newspaper clippings. Else unmarked save for former owner's name & date in very small, neat pen to ffep. The unclipped DJ is also VG, with some mild chipping to both ends of spine & a heavy diagonal crease to lower outer corner of front cover. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022564
- Title
- San Francisco Bay
- Author
- Gilliam, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA BAY AREA CITIES HARBORS OCEAN WATER GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE FISHING LONGSHOREMEN MARINE LIFE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature/Gardening/Environmentalism; Californiana;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
All books shipped promptly that day or next; tracking # provided on all orders. Refunds issued gladly in accordance with Biblio policies.
About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 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...