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Ferro-cement: design, techniques, and application
by Bruce Bingham
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0870331787
- ISBN 13
- 9780870331787
- Seller
-
Creston, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Cornell Maritime Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Not Stated, Presumed First Edition. 444 pages. Gold lettering on the spine. Corners lightly bumped. Inside endpapers show marks where the dust jacket was taped down. Jacket is now protected in Brodart, shows chipping along the edges, small (less than 1/4') pieces missing on the top and tail of the spine, and is worn on the turn-ins. A very good copy of this comprehensive and standard text on the art of ferro-cement boat design and building. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs, graphs and boat plans.
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- Bookseller
- Beacon Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002211
- Title
- Ferro-cement: design, techniques, and application
- Author
- Bruce Bingham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0870331787
- ISBN 13
- 9780870331787
- Publisher
- Cornell Maritime Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Maryland
- This edition first published
- 1974
- Pages
- 444
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About the Seller
Beacon Books
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Creston, British Columbia
About Beacon Books
The storefront offers secondhand books of all kinds with ample sections of literature, art, history, mystery, popular fiction, science fiction and children's books. The online store features first and signed editions, rare and antiquarian books, academic titles and a large collection of nautical and military history.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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- Brodart
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- Chipping
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- Jacket
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- 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....
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