THE BLACKWALL FRIGATES
by Lubbock, Basil
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Glasgow: Brown, Son, & Ferguson, 1950. Second Edition. Hardcover. Long octavo, xv, 280 pages. In Good plus condition with Fair Dust Jacket. Spine is off white with purple lettering. Dust jacket has major scuffing, tearing of varying degrees along the edges, a library identification sticker on the spine, is price clipped, and has some staining on the interior. Boards have rubbing to the back, minor shelf wear, and bumping to corners. Text block has some foxing. Ex-Library. NOTE: Shelved in Room A. 1372939. Special Collections.
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Details
- Seller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1372939
- Title
- THE BLACKWALL FRIGATES
- Author
- Lubbock, Basil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Brown, Son, & Ferguson
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1950
Terms of Sale
Second Story Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.