British Pleasure Steamers 1920-1939
by Grimshaw, Geoffrey
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Richard Tilling, 1945. Light wear to head and heel of spine; lightly bumped upper front corner. Occasional repair or reinforcement using white archival tape skillfully applied at spine of last leaves of some gatherings. Additional images and text relevant to certain steamers, cut from some other publication, are either laid in at relevant ship or left loose. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- First Used Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000010
- Title
- British Pleasure Steamers 1920-1939
- Author
- Grimshaw, Geoffrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Richard Tilling
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Marine History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Marine - Boats - History;
Terms of Sale
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Full refund within 30 days if condition of book is not as described.
About the Seller
First Used Books
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Vancouver, British Columbia
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Leaves
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- Spine
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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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
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