A Young Man at Sea (1931)
by Laurie, Maxwell
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Doubleday, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1931, first edition. 314 pages. Gray cloth boards with red titling and decoration. Spine is slightly shaken but sturdy. Binding intact. Dust jacket shows rubbing to the edges and scuffing throughout, with age toning and light edgewear throughout. Three closed tears to center front panel of DJ, in the shape of three sides of a square; fourth side creased. Cover price $2.50, covered by a Mylar sleeve. Bookplate at front paste down and front free paper, contemporary bookseller's ticket to FFEP. Pages show faint age toning, but are otherwise clean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Bin (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBS-0770312
- Title
- A Young Man at Sea (1931)
- Author
- Laurie, Maxwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Date Published
- 1931
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
The Book Bin
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Salem, Oregon
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The Book Bin is a locally owned and operated business that has been in the same family since 1983. We are an ABA- and ABAA-affiliated general-interest bookstore with two stores in Salem and Corvallis, Oregon. We have over 30,000 items listed for sale online, and a dedicated rare book room in our Salem location. Books in our rare book room cover a wide range of subjects, with a focus on science fiction, fantasy and horror, literature and poetry, metaphysics, and children's books.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...