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Yachts & Yachting in Contemporary Art
by Heckstall-Smith, B.; Edited by Geoffrey Holme
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Studio Liimited, 1925. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to. 48 pages of text, plus 99 full page plates in black and white. Hardcover bound in blue cloth. The binding is rather worn and spotted with silverfishing or some other pest, and there is a 2 inch split in the cloth on the front hinge. Prior owner's information scraped off the front pastedown. The decorative endpapers are foxed, as are some of the plates. The text is printed on "antiqued" paper made to look old but comes across looking spotted. A reading or reference copy.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047012
- Title
- Yachts & Yachting in Contemporary Art
- Author
- Heckstall-Smith, B.; Edited by Geoffrey Holme
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Studio Liimited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 3.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1925; B. Heckstall-Smith; Geoffrey Holme; Yachts; Yachting; Art; Paintings; Plates; Contemporary; Maritime; Sailing.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime; Art;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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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...
- First Edition
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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