Surface at the Pole: The Story of U.S.S.'Skate'
by James Calvert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hutchinson st ed, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1961. First Edition. 220 pages. Photographic dust jacket over grey cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout and notable tanning to text block edges. Boards have minor rubbing and visible bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier sunning to spine. Unclipped jacket with major edge wear and tape to front. Splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Visible foxing to interior.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1634815280ADA
- Title
- Surface at the Pole: The Story of U.S.S.'Skate'
- Author
- James Calvert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson st ed
- Date Published
- 1961
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....