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Standing into Danger: A Dramatic Story of Shipwreck and Rescue
by Brown, Cassie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385136811
- ISBN 13
- 9780385136815
- Seller
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
Garden City, NY, USA: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 391pp. 18 unpaginated plates. Diagrams, maps in text. Goldenrod boards, black cloth quarterwrap spine w gold lettering. No edgewear, light bumping to tail. Binding square and sound. Printed DJ showing wear to head and tail, small chips to bottom front edge. DJ preserved in BroDart cover. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Post Horizon Booksellers
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047907
- Title
- Standing into Danger: A Dramatic Story of Shipwreck and Rescue
- Author
- Brown, Cassie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385136811
- ISBN 13
- 9780385136815
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Military operations, Naval -- American Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. Lawrence Pollux (Ship) Shipwrecks -- Newfoundland and Labrador St. Lawrence (N.L.) -- History Truxtun (Ship) Wilkes (Ship) World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American NOISBN N
- Bookseller catalogs
- War and Military; Edgington Sea Collection; Railway / Marine / Transport and Transportation;
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About the Seller
Post Horizon Booksellers
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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