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Golden Gate: A Story of San Francisco Harbor
by Riesenberg Jr., Felix
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good (in mylar)
- Seller
-
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Retired library copy, with only fep/ffep stamped. Light age toning to end pages, else textblock is immaculate and tight. Very clean red cloth binding, bumped at head and foot of spine, gently bumped corners. Unclipped dust jacket, chipping and rubbing to head and foot of spine, chipped/rubbed corners, mylar sleeved for safe-keeping. 347p., including bibliography. Index at end.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good (in mylar). Illus. by Plates. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover.
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- Seller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SB11092
- Title
- Golden Gate: A Story of San Francisco Harbor
- Author
- Riesenberg Jr., Felix
- Illustrator
- Plates
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good (in mylar)
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- San Francisco harbor Story, California History, Nautical, California Harbors
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
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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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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