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Jane's Fighting Ships 1968-69
by Raymond V.B. Blackman
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Jane's Fighting Ships 1968-69, Book is Fine, very clean tan cloth boards with No previous owner bookplate or writing, Very unusual printing, no American publishing information, only Chinese writing en verso of titles page, believed to be a Taiwan reprint. Book is over sized just over 12 inches in height, 560 pages plus index, Heavily illustrated with hundreds of black and white photographs of U.S. Navy ships, Very Rare Jacket is near fine, very clean aqua blue paper with blue titles and ship on front board, rear board has advertisements for other Jane's books. A rare and most unusual printing in Fine condition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001546
- Title
- Jane's Fighting Ships 1968-69
- Author
- Raymond V.B. Blackman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Keywords
- Naval History, Jane's Fighting Ships, U.S. Navy, U.S. Military
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Bookplate
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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