London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman 1836. (hardcover) 315pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 8vo. Black leaher with gilt design to front. Gilt title to spine, four raised bands. Gilt edges, faded. Patterned endpapers. Frontispiece. Each engraving has a paper guard. Edges rubbed, corners lightly bumped. There is a book plate to the front free endpaper, a name pencilled to the blank side of the front free endpaper, and a personal gift inscription on the flyleaf facing the title page. Binding tape at inside front hinge. Starting at the rear hinge. Light foxing throughout. All of that identified, remains internally clean to read and enjoy. Marryat was widely recognized as a front runner of today's sea stories. Illustrated with twenty splendid engravings from drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, ESQ., R.A..

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Bookseller: Spafford Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 125751
Title: The Pirate, and the Three Cutters
Author: Marryat, Captain
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman
Place of Publication: London
Keywords: Literature, Adventure Novels, British - Literature

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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...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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....
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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...
Raised Band(s): Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...