American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design, Development, and Construction
by CHAPELLE, HOWARD I
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About This Item
W. W. Norton & Company 1951. Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt nautical motif to front board, xviii + 363pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, spine cocked, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine & upper edge of front cover)
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- Title
- American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design, Development, and Construction
- Author
- CHAPELLE, HOWARD I
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company 1951
- Keywords
- maritime nautical design shipping sailing boats boating development construction building American US
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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