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GOLDEN ADMIRAL
by Mason, F. Van Wyck, Illustrated by John Alan Maxwell
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good in Mylar Cover
- Seller
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COSTA MESA, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1953. Slight slant and minor shelf wear. Dust Jacket has sun fading to spine with light edge wear co rner chipping and rubbing. Dust jacket also shows very light soiling to front upper edge and a small chip in the lower front edge of spine with a small closed tear and tape repair on the inside. Colors are bright on front. 435 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. Cloth-Blue. Near Fine/Very Good in Mylar Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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- Bookseller
- HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 289
- Title
- GOLDEN ADMIRAL
- Author
- Mason, F. Van Wyck, Illustrated by John Alan Maxwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good in Mylar Cover
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing.
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- SEA NAUTICAL
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS
Biblio member since 2019
COSTA MESA, California
About HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS
We handle mostly First Edition First Printings of books and as many signed as possible. We also have a large number of Easton Press Leather Bound books many signed.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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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