Yankee's Wander-World; Circling the Globe in the Brigantine Yankee
by Johnson, Irving and Electa
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
-
Lincoln City, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Irving Johnson on the half-title. The book has some spot of fading, but is very tight & clean. The DJ is very worn at the edges & corners, with chipping at the upper edge, and the lower 2" of the spine. Happily, the front of the DJ is unfaded & still very attractive. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 277 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Robert's Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16955
- Title
- Yankee's Wander-World; Circling the Globe in the Brigantine Yankee
- Author
- Johnson, Irving and Electa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Historical, History, Sailing, Sail Boats, Nautical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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Robert's Bookshop
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Lincoln City, Oregon
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Glossary
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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....
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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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