The Finely Fitted Yacht (Volume I Interior, Volume II Exterior)
by Mate, Ferene
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Vancouver, B.C: Albatross Publishing House, 1981. Third Printing. HB. Two volumes in one, with separate title pages. Brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo, 287, 318 pp., cream colored end papers. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. No marks in book, binding tight and covers clean. In a price clipped dust jacket that shows light edge wear. Book condition VG+ in VG DJ.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parker's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- KE7644
- Title
- The Finely Fitted Yacht (Volume I Interior, Volume II Exterior)
- Author
- Mate, Ferene
- Format/Binding
- HB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Albatross Publishing House
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver, B.C
- Date Published
- 1981
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports;
Terms of Sale
Parker's Rare Books
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About the Seller
Parker's Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Ontario, Wisconsin
About Parker's Rare Books
Specializing in antiquarian, collectible, scholarly, and rare books of all genres.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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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