A Blue Sea of Blood: Deciphering the Mysterious Fate of the USS Edsall
by Kehn Jr., Donald M
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 076033353X
- ISBN 13
- 9780760333532
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Zenith Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Kehn Jr., Donald M. : A Blue Sea of Blood: Deciphering the Mysterious Fate of the USS Edsall. Minneapolis : Zenith Press/MBI, 2009. First/first. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.375"/24cm h. Bound in publisher's sky blue cloth, silver lettering to spine. Glossy b&w pictorial dj. Plain white endpapers. Xviii pp prelim material, 286 numbered pp, plus 16 pp glossy b&w photos to center. Prologue, Foreword (by James Nix, grandson of an officer lost on the Edsall), intro, six chapters, epilogue, postscript, appendices, notes, glossary, acknowledgements, bibliography, index. Condition notes: moderate wear, no tears to dj, esp around folds; moderate wear to boards (corners bumped, spine ends rolled, one inch bump to tail front board), spine slightly cocked, light soiling to top edge. Interior clean and bright wo markings of any kind. A well-told and documented tale of a mystery of war at sea. We personally inspect every book we offer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Bookseller
- Furrowed Brow Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 221027008
- Title
- A Blue Sea of Blood: Deciphering the Mysterious Fate of the USS Edsall
- Author
- Kehn Jr., Donald M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 076033353X
- ISBN 13
- 9780760333532
- Publisher
- Zenith Press
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis
- Date Published
- 2009
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History;
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Furrowed Brow Books was established in 2020. The bookstore's owner, Paul Purman, grew up in a magical, historic farmhouse in piedmont Maryland stuffed with books. In 2021 Paul was accepted as a member of the Independent Online Booksellers' Association (IOBA), and graduated from the annual Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS-Minnesota).
We're happy to discuss making an offer on a collection in one of our specialty areas.
Dealer discount of 20%; we simply ask that you reciprocate with a discount of 20%.
Thanks for stopping by!
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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
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