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Castaway Boats
by Slocum, Captain Victor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- Seller
-
Stanley, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Lee Furman, 1938. Book. Illus. by Charles Rosner, Illustrator. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York: Lee Furman, 1938. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good+. Charles Rosner, Illustrator. Clean blue cloth boards with black lettering and decoration on cover and spine. Tiny bump to lower front board edge; no fraying or wear, corners are sharp. Fading along front and rear spine gutter. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean beautifully illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 311 pgs. with illustrations by Charles Rosner, maps by author. Clean unfaded color illustrated dustjacket is not price clipped, has slight corner wear, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Records of such castaways as the Wager longboat, Hercules lifeboat, Jeanette's gig, and many others, with the thrilling adventures of their survivors. Beautiful color frontis illustration, plus black & white illustrations throughout. 8vo. Fiction..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015708
- Title
- Castaway Boats
- Author
- Slocum, Captain Victor
- Illustrator
- Charles Rosner, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Lee Furman
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- SEA SHIPS SAILING ADVENTURE SHIPWRECK SURVIVORS, NAUTICAL, OLD DUST JACKETS 1930S
- Bookseller catalogs
- ships/sailing/shipwrecks;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
Biblio member since 2003
Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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