THE SAILING-SHIP. SIX YHOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY
by Anderson, Romola and R. C
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:Robert M. McBride & Company. 1926. (212)pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt on front cover and spine strip soiled and shelfworn, with spine strip darkened and gilt dulled, and wear along edges, spine ends and edge points slightly worn. Top edges soiled. Internally, end-pages slightly age-toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures. With a small bookseller ticket to bottom inside edge of first free end-page. Pages slighlty age-toned with an occasional spot of foxing scattered throughout. The binding is tight with hinges intact.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26692
- Title
- THE SAILING-SHIP. SIX YHOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY
- Author
- Anderson, Romola and R. C
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Robert M. McBride & Company
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- MARITIME; SAILING SHIPS; HISTORY;
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
Biblio member since 2016
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.