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The Quadrant and the Quill (Signed and Inscribed)
by Kenney, Cyril Ernest
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
UK: Privately Published, 1947. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. First, likely only edition. Quarter bound in linen over plain paper-covered boards. 166pp including 93 plate illustrations. Small folio. Boards are heavily rubbed and chipped at edges, rounded on spine ends, stain around upper leading corners, with numerous small, mild marks and indentations. Endpapers a little toned, unevenly. Some pencil annotations on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, 'For my friends Mr and Mrs Allison, with best wishes for Christmas and the New Year, Cyril Kenney, Dec 1948'. Written in honour of Captain Samuel Sturmy, 'a tryed and trusty sea-man', and author of The Mariner's Magazine, 1669. A biographical account of Sturmy's life, together with a description and history of the magazine he produced and the collection of books he accumulated.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016933
- Title
- The Quadrant and the Quill (Signed and Inscribed)
- Author
- Kenney, Cyril Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Impression
- Publisher
- Privately Published
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Sailors, Seamen, Book collectors, Captain Samuel Sturmy
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- New
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- Inscribed
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- Tight
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- 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,...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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