My Voyage in the United States Frigate "Congress"
by Van Denburgh, Elizabeth Douglas
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Desmond FitzGerald, Inc., 1913. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jacket. 1913 Desmond FitzGerald, Inc. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has green cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering. Top edges gilt. Front cover has gold illustration of a sailing ship on the ocean. Deckle fore edges and bottom edges. Black and white frontispiece. Black and white plates. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends bumped. Cloth has lifted from the boards in a few places, creating a slight bubbling of the surface. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Appears to be unread. Many pages uncut. Pages clean and unmarked. 338 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5774
- Title
- My Voyage in the United States Frigate "Congress"
- Author
- Van Denburgh, Elizabeth Douglas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Desmond FitzGerald, Inc.
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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