The Call of the Sea: Including The Lost Sea; The Distant Shore and A Sailor's Life
by Jan de Hartog
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Atheneum , 1966 Atheneum, New York. 1966. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight shelfwear to the board edges. DJ: Very Good +; slight chipping at head; light shelfwear to tail and tips. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine; author initials on front board. Yellow endpapers. Clean internals; Interior hinges are sound and not split. 556 pp 8vo. This volume includes three books by a magnificent storyteller who holds you with his glittering eye and his stirring tales of wonder on the deep. Written by a Dutch mariner. Each of the three books is illuminated by his gift of story; each of the books is about the sea; each is filled with men and ships and the wondrous things they do to each other. And each has something special of its own. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013397
- Title
- The Call of the Sea: Including The Lost Sea; The Distant Shore and A Sailor's Life
- Author
- Jan de Hartog
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1966
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dutch Mariner, Holland, World War II, the sea, novels of the sea, seafaring, storyteller, life at sea, boats, tugs, courage and love, Stella, The Distant Shore, The Lost Sea, A Sailor's Life.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- 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...