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The Velvet Doublet
by Street, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 1953. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Doubleday, 1953. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated First Edition in clean original dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with red lettering on spine. No bumping or wear, Very slight fading to edges and spine. Clean map-illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. All pages and edges are clean. 351 pages. Clean illustrated jacket has price clip to upper corner of front inside flap, 1/8" chipping at top spine edge, slight age-toning to rear panel (very nice photograph of author on rear panel). Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The story of Lepe, and a lifetime spent at sea in the most dazzling years in all the history of navigation and discovery, and dark days spent under the shadow of the Spanish Inquisition, of bright hours of roistering and wenching, and shining moments of love. The time is late in the 15th century when the scimitar of Islam was across North Africa and the Moors still held Granada..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027097
- Title
- The Velvet Doublet
- Author
- Street, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- NOVEL, HISTORICAL FICTION, JAMES STREET, FIRST EDITION, SPAIN, SPANISH INQUISITION
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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