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Watermen
by Peffer, Randall S
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0801821770
- ISBN 13
- 9780801821776
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981 Book. As New. Hardcover. Third Printing. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 195 pp, b&w frontis, Open Season; Cold Weather; Spring; When the Wind Blows Sou'west with b&w illustrations. Third Printing, 1981. "For 300 years, generations of Tilghman Islanders have lived by harvesting the waters of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. They are watermen, an old English term for commercial fishermen, and their lives today retain much of the spirit and simplicity that characterized their land's first Anglo-Saxon settlers. the author's first person account provides an intimate portrait of the life of this community of rugged individuals through a year's harvest cycle." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Textured cloth with black lettering to spine..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002067
- Title
- Watermen
- Author
- Peffer, Randall S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- Third Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0801821770
- ISBN 13
- 9780801821776
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore, MD
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- U.S. HISTORY MARYLAND CHESAPEAKE BAY TILGHMAN ISLANDERS OYSTER FISHERIES COMMERCIAL FISHING
- Bookseller catalogs
- U. S. HISTORY;
- Size
- Large 8vo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
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