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Reed's Useful Hints to Sea - Going Engineers
by Peter Youngson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Reed, 1921. Revised Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. How to repair and avoid breakdowns. One of a collection of 150 specialist Trade books, including carpentry, wood turning, wooden boat building,stonemasonry, blacksmithing, tile making and the like. All are available for sale at this site. Use the special keyword pickwicktrade to compile an on-screen list of all these still available. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 446 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges foxed and browned. Covers rubbed and worn. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; 1920s; Ships & the Sea. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 34279. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34279
- Title
- Reed's Useful Hints to Sea - Going Engineers
- Author
- Peter Youngson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Reed
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- BZDB1 pickwicktrade Engineering, Industrial, Trade; 1920s; Ships & the Sea. Unbranded Peter Youngson Reed's Useful Hints to Sea - Going Engineers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ships & the Sea;
Terms of Sale
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mastercard, Visa, Amex, Diners Cards and PayPal accepted and preferred. Direct deposits, cheques by arrangement. All transactions in $AU. Returns accepted within 30 days of receipt if goods supplied are clearly not as advertised or described. Return shipping/freight refunded to customer if supplied products are flawed or have been clearly mis-described, otherwise at purchaser's expense. Returns to be in condition as originally shipped. Trade discounts and shipments under invoice available to regular customers, email for details.
About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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