The End of the Voyage: an Account of the Last Sailing Craft of the British Coasts
by Peter Norton
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Percival Marshall London, 1959. Hardcover. Good. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 145 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Black and white photographic and illustrated plates. Light staining, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Hinges are lightly cracked but boards remain firmly attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
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- Seller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1678090187ADA
- Title
- The End of the Voyage: an Account of the Last Sailing Craft of the British Coasts
- Author
- Peter Norton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Percival Marshall London
- Date Published
- 1959
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....