BRAVE OLD SALT: Or, Life on the Quarter Deck/A Story of the Great Rebellion
by Optic, Oliver [Adams, William Taylor]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hurst & Company (No Date) 301 pp. Original gray pictorial cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine, lightly soiled. Spine sunned. Corners bumped. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. Insect damage to hinges. Light foxing to edges of text block and title pg. Contents nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16016CH
- Title
- BRAVE OLD SALT: Or, Life on the Quarter Deck/A Story of the Great Rebellion
- Author
- Optic, Oliver [Adams, William Taylor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Hurst & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS BOOKS JUVENILE CHILDREN STORIES AUTHORS OPTIC OLIVER ADAMS WILLIAM TAYLOR 1822 1897 TRAVEL ADVENTURE FICTION GENERAL
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
Biblio member since 2007
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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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