LIFE AND HEROIC DEEDS OF ADMIRAL DEWEY, INCLUDING BATTLES IN THE PHILIPPINES: Containing a Complete and Glowing Account of the Grand Achievements of the Hero of Manila; His Ancestry and Early Life; His Brilliant Career in the Great Civil War;...
by Young, Louis Stanley; Northrop, Henry Davenport
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: World Bible House (1899) 508 pp. Original blue pictorial cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding moderately soiled and rubbed; spine and edges sunned. Edges of text block marbled. Light foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's name on front paste-down. Illust. w/ a color frontispiece, and superbly embellished w/ a galaxy of phototype engravings.. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M4099SA
- Title
- LIFE AND HEROIC DEEDS OF ADMIRAL DEWEY, INCLUDING BATTLES IN THE PHILIPPINES: Containing a Complete and Glowing Account of the Grand Achievements of the Hero of Manila; His Ancestry and Early Life; His Brilliant Career in the Great Civil War;...
- Author
- Young, Louis Stanley; Northrop, Henry Davenport
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- World Bible House
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Keywords
- MILITARY HISTORY SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 1898 BIOGRAPHY DEWEY GEORGE 1837 1917 ADMIRALS U. S. NAVY NAVAL OPERATIONS NAUTICAL HISTORY MARITIME CAMPAIGNS AND BATTLES BATTLE OF MANILA BAY 1898 PHILIPPINES WARFARE AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES WORLD HISTORY ASI
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical; Military - Spanish-American War;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
Biblio member since 2007
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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