Many Cargoes
by W. W. Jacobs
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Webster, New York, United States
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About This Item
Stokes, 1903 Sea Stories E. W. Kemble Hardcover Reprint. "Very good. Missing dust jacket. General wear. Corners bumped. Wear at head and tail of spine including 1"" x 1/8"" chip at upper left. General edgewear. Front free end paper is loose. Spine is cocked. Interior pages are clean." Black cloth boards. Many colored front board illustration. Gilt lettering and decoration. Eight full color and thirty-two black and white illustrations by E. W. Kemble. 21 Adventure stories. Author's first book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Graham Holroyd Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 343910
- Title
- Many Cargoes
- Author
- W. W. Jacobs
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Stokes
- Date Published
- 1903 Sea Stories E. W. Kemble
Terms of Sale
Graham Holroyd Books
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About the Seller
Graham Holroyd Books
Biblio member since 2015
Webster, New York
About Graham Holroyd Books
Established in 1972. 400,000 books. Rare paperbacks, pulp magazines, hardcovers, digest size paperbacks, science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, detective, romance, etc
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.