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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
by William W. Warner
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible; Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316923265
- ISBN 13
- 9780316923262
- Seller
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Atlantic Monthly Press / Little Brown & Co, 1976. Price-clipped dust jacket in Good+ condition with mild edgewear (mostly at spine ends), darkening to spine and edges, and some rubbing. Name on front endpaper. Gift inscription on half title page. Pages of text are clean, bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. Stated first edition of this Pulitzer Prize winning book. No mention of printing, and presumed first. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible; Very Good/Good.
Synopsis
Brigitte Koyama-Richard is a professor at the University of Tokyo, where she teaches comparative literature and art history. She has published several works on Japanese art.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Escape
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 227536
- Title
- Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
- Author
- William W. Warner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible; Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316923265
- ISBN 13
- 9780316923262
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press / Little Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maryland & Local Interest;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Baltimore, Maryland
About The Book Escape
We are a privately owned used and new book store located in the historic Federal Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. We have over 40,000 books in our store. Our inventory includes a large variety of subjects and authors. We take pride in our careful shipping practices. We ship in boxes and not envelopes to protect our books. When available we use recycled or recycleable materials to securely pack and ship our books to you. If you are ever in Baltimore please come by our store. We love visitors!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
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