A FLEET IN BEING. Notes of Two Trips With the Channel Squadron
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London and New York: Macmillan, 1898. Hardcover. Good +. Octavo, blue cloth covers, 84 pages. With a vignette of a warship by N. Wilkinson on the top cover. Livingston 178 :" The six articles appeared originally in The Morning Post, November 5,7,8,9 10, 11, 1898." The first issue was in wrappers, later issues in cloth, as is this copy. Browning at cover edges and spine; one corner bumped. Royal Navy 092508B
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- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000019319
- Title
- A FLEET IN BEING. Notes of Two Trips With the Channel Squadron
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1898
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Alkahest Books
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Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...