THE SEA
by BOWEN, FRANK C.:
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- first
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About This Item
Halton & Truscott Smith Ltd, London, n.d.. First edition, 4 volumes by the author of Ships for All, bound in watered silk with gilt decoration and titles, illus col & b/w plates, eps professionally replaced and each volume has binder's label at foot edge of front pastedown, vol1 to 1697, 308pp, VG+ (sl sunned spine with some wear, sl scuffing to extrems, corners v sl runned, foot board edges have very minor shelf wear, minimal foxing confined to rear ep and last page) vol2 1698-1783 284pp VG+ (sl sunned spine, sl scuffed extrems, minimal rubbing to covers, sl foxed rear section) vol3 1784-1814, 289pp, VG+ (spine sl sunned with sl scuffed extrems, minimal shelf wear to foot edge, v sl rubbed corners, sl foxing confined to last section and feps) vol4 1815-1875, 290pp, VG+ (spine sl sunned with sl scuffed extrems, corners sl rubbed, v sl foxing confined to rear ep and index pages and verso front illus plate) A beautiful set.
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- Title
- THE SEA
- Author
- BOWEN, FRANK C.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Halton & Truscott Smith Ltd, London, n.d.
- Keywords
- modern first edition frank bowen
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Shelf Wear
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Sunned
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
- Gilt
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