Two Years Before the Mast
by Richard H Dana Jr
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/NA
- Seller
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Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
HARDCOVER - 1899 stated - Red cloth on board w gilt embossed title and author - floral decoration w red front panel with sailor in sou'wester hat, blue jacket and white pants. Normal edgewear, spine end frays, corner bumps. Text block good, some valley cracks but covers intact. Pale green toile pictoral endpapers have two former owner entries - one dated "Xmas 1901" Publishers page has light pencil price. Full colorplate frontispiece of ship under sail - BW plates throughout. pages foxed/toned. NO marks - NOT EX-lib. Not isued w DJ.
Details
- Bookseller
- plainontablets LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio131
- Title
- Two Years Before the Mast
- Author
- Richard H Dana Jr
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- NA
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Altemus
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1899
Terms of Sale
plainontablets LLC
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...