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The Mate of the Good Ship York
by Russell, W. Clark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: L. C. Page & Co., 1902. Book. Illus. by W. H. Dunton, illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. Boston: L. C. Page & Co., 1902. First Edition . Very Good+/No Dust jacket. W. H. Dunton, illustrator. First Edition, with 1902 on title page and on copyright page. Green ribbed cloth boards with gilt, white and dark green sailing ship decoration on cover, unchipped stamped white lettering on spine with small anchor below. Very light corner wear, binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Mere hint of very light soiling. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. Frontis illustration by W. H. Dunton with clean tissue guard. 351 pp. A story filled with the savor of the sea and the adventurous spirit of the old hardy merchant mariners. Scarce first edition..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019002
- Title
- The Mate of the Good Ship York
- Author
- Russell, W. Clark
- Illustrator
- W. H. Dunton, illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- L. C. Page & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- SHIPS, SAILING, NAUTICAL, MARITIME, ADVENTURE, ANTIQUARIAN, DECORATED BINDING, DATB
- Bookseller catalogs
- ships/sailing/shipwrecks; American Trade Bindings;
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- Good+
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- Cloth
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- Copyright page
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
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- First Edition
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- 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...
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