Anchors Aweigh: Tales of Wooden Ship Days
by Oliver G. Gwan (Editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Orange, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover First edition published by Grosset & Dunlap 1929 with mylar covered dust jacket that has chipping and wear to bottom edge and spine head and tail - not price clipped. Color frontispiece by N. C. Wyeth, illustrated pastedowns and b/w as well as color illustrations within the 235 clean pages. Illustrators include Frank Schoonover, Charles Hargens, and others (see photos)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bound2please Books B2plz (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102823Z
- Title
- Anchors Aweigh
- Author
- Oliver G. Gwan (Editor)
- Illustrator
- N.C. Wyeth
- Format/Binding
- Green boards with title on boards and
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- 235
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- maritime stories, historical fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays and Stories;
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About the Seller
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Orange, Virginia
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- 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....
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...