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Admiral of The Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
by Morison, Samuel Eliot
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Not Issued
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1985. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, full genuine gark blue leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 688 pages. Index. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn book block complete this work as a quality Franklin Library production, "privately printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics." Illustrated with drawings by Bertram Greene and maps by Erwin Raisz. First edition thus. This title was published earlier by The Franklin Library (1978), with the present special edition being by far the scarcer. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1943. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and near like new copy. Fine,.
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021059
- Title
- Admiral of The Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
- Author
- Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Biography, Fine Binding, Franklin Library
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography and Biography; Fine Binding;
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Staten Island, New York
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