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Clothes Make the Pirate. Containing Thirty-four Chanties and Ballads
by Day, Holman
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Arrowsic, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1925. Hardcover. 8vo (7.5" x 5.25"), black cloth, gilt title and red pirate design on upper cover. xi, 310 pp. Stated first edition in appealing pirate-themed dust jacket. A humorous colonial tale of the pirate Dixy Bull who terrorized the Pemaquid, Maine peninsula, by Maine poet, filmmaker, and journalist Day, author of Up in Maine, Squire Phin, King Spruce and others. Scarce in the first edition, especially in jacket.
CONDITION: Very good, discreet private library number (242) in upper right corner of front paste-down and flyleaf; dj good with private library label numbered 242 on spine, pencil numbers on spine as well, chipping, tears and creases at extremities.
CONDITION: Very good, discreet private library number (242) in upper right corner of front paste-down and flyleaf; dj good with private library label numbered 242 on spine, pencil numbers on spine as well, chipping, tears and creases at extremities.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James Arsenault & Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6496
- Title
- Clothes Make the Pirate. Containing Thirty-four Chanties and Ballads
- Author
- Day, Holman
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1925
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
James Arsenault & Company
Biblio member since 2021
Arrowsic, Maine
About James Arsenault & Company
James Arsenault & Company was established in 1988. Our stock consists of Americana, literature, fine press, early photography, plate books, trade catalogs, autographs & manuscripts, ephemera, maps, and historical prints, as well as fine and rare books and pamphlets in a variety of fields. We are members in good standing of the ABAA and ILAB, and have exhibited for many years at numerous rare book fairs in both the northeast and in California. We do not have an open shop, but welcome your inquiries regarding items in our stock possibly of interest to you.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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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