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White-Jacket (A Narrative Of Adventures In The South Seas)
by Melville Herman
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
White-Jacket (A Narrative Of Adventures In The South Seas), Melville Herman, Dana Estes & Company, Boston, Circa 1892-1900.
1/4 leather and marbled blue boards. Top edges gilt, other edges deckled. Five raised bands, with gilt floral designs in four compartments. Gilt titles: Works Of Melville followed by Title and Edition Deluxe at Foot. Illus frontis with tissue guard; additional photogravure plates from drawings by Henry Austin, Burnham Shute and W.H. Overend. Preface by Arthur Stedman. Title page in black and red with Illustrated Sterling Edition top. Copyright page states Elizabeth S. Melville, 1892. There are no other dates and no ads. Dana Estes and Co. did publish editions of Omoo and White Jacket in 1892 (one year after Melville's death). This may have been published a few years later; perhaps 1900 as in this year this board style was also used by Dana Estes for works by Dickens, Scott and Thackeray. Volume in beautiful condition internally with no marks of any kind, tears or folded pages. Binding is firm and volume is square and tight. Spine intact but unglued; front board remains attached.
Discount available if also ordering Omoo, Back Lane Books number 002293.
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- Bookseller
- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2294
- Title
- White-Jacket (A Narrative Of Adventures In The South Seas)
- Author
- Melville Herman
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
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North Vancouver, British Columbia
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Copyright page
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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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