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Sailing Made Easy and Comfort in Small Craft, also How to Run a Motor Cruiser: A Practical Handbook of Sailing and Cookery
by Housley, S J
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Blake's, 1930. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First edition, first printing [1930]. 138pp, with illustrative diagrams in text. Red cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped, some fading along spine ends and top edge of front board and foxing on text block edges. Some toning on endpapers. Dust jacket has tears and wear to edges and spine with some chipping and loss and some staining on the spine and internally.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014138
- Title
- Sailing Made Easy and Comfort in Small Craft, also How to Run a Motor Cruiser: A Practical Handbook of Sailing and Cookery
- Author
- Housley, S J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Blake's
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About BookAddiction
Based in the leafy hamlet of Chartham Hatch, just a few miles from the historic Cathedral city of Canterbury, BookAddiction offers beautiful, illustrated and collectible used books and a selection of unique works on paper.BookAddiction was established in 1999 (originally trading as The Virtual Bookshelf). We are members of the book-selling co-operation, Ibooknet, which extends the highest professional and ethical standards, and are in the process of joining the Provincial Booksellers' Fairs Association (PBFA).Follow our blog, on books and book collecting at www.bookaddictionuk.wordpress.uk or visit our website at www.bookaddiction.co.uk.We welcome inquiries about our books and endeavour to respond promptly. Please ask away, Offers always welcome.
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- 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...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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