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The Tanker Derbent
by Krymov, Yuri
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959. Near Fine/Very Good+. Very clean book in illustrated dust jacket. Dark blue cloth boards with gold and light blue lettering on cover, blue lettering on spine. No fraying, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Nicely illustrated with drawings. 238 pages. Clean illustrated dust jacket has very shallow chipping at spine ends (1/16" or less), enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An oil tanker (Uzbekistan) is sinking at the opening of this tale and the ship Derbent's heroic crew race to save the men on the sinking ship..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026384
- Title
- The Tanker Derbent
- Author
- Krymov, Yuri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Publisher
- Foreign Languages Publishing House
- Place of Publication
- Moscow
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- RUSSIAN LITERATURE, MARITIME, NAUTICAL, SHIPS AND SAILING, SHIPWRECKS, YURI KRYMOV, FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE
- Bookseller catalogs
- ships/sailing/shipwrecks;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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