The Down Easters: The Story of Cape Horners: American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869 - 1929
by Lubbock, Basil
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/VG
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Glasgow, Scotland: Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., Nautical Publishers, 1953. Clean indigo blue cover with gilt titles. Thin soft rubbing to bottom of spine and tiny rub to bottom corner tips. Faint foxing to edges. Age foxing to eps. Quite clean content, all fldg charts clean & intact, b/w illustrations, binding tight. 288p Dj: soft rubbing. Very faint dusting of soiling to spine and just a few small very faint spots. Head & bottom spine with several chips. Head & bottom flaps spine with chips.Tiny closed tear to bottom of front edge. Price-cut to front flap foot.. Reprint. Hb. VG/VG.
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- Bookseller
- BOOKMARK Ltd
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029635
- Title
- The Down Easters: The Story of Cape Horners: American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869 - 1929
- Author
- Lubbock, Basil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., Nautical Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Date Published
- 1953
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime;
Terms of Sale
BOOKMARK Ltd
Will reimburse cost of book, if not as described.
About the Seller
BOOKMARK Ltd
Biblio member since 2006
Auckland
About BOOKMARK Ltd
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- 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...
- 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...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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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