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Last of the Wind Ships
by Alan Villiers
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Routledge and Sons, London, 1939. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 4to <12". xviii + 62pp + 208 plates. Rear hinge cracking. Spine faded. Foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges browned, foxed and marked. Corners slightly bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Ships & the Sea; Modern; Photography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52119. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52119
- Title
- Last of the Wind Ships
- Author
- Alan Villiers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Routledge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- BZDB243 maritime, history, photography, sailing Ships & the Sea; Modern; Photography. Unbranded Alan Villiers Last of the Wind Ships
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ships & the Sea; Photography;
Terms of Sale
Dreadnought Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Dreadnought Books
Biblio member since 2013
Bristol
About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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