The Blackwall Frigates
by Lubbock, Basil
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Co., 1922. History of the Blackwall Yard, shipbuilders on the Thames since 1611; voyaging in the days of the East India Company, men & sailors of the Blackwall ships; includes many b/w reproductions of old prints of these elegant ships, color plates of various flags & ensigns. First American edition, printed for Lauriat by James Brown & Son, Glasgow. Scarce in the jacket. Hardcover, full blue cloth with gilt lettering and blind-stamped decoration; gilt top edge. Light wear to spine ends; lower corners lightly bumped; bookseller's label (Lauriat's own) on front end sheet. Jacket price clipped with chips at the head of the spine; small hole in jacket spine; short closed tear to top front panel; shows some rubbing. Text clean; xv, blank, 332 pages with appendix and index; many b/w and a few color plates, drawings.. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 6" by 8¾".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 997961
- Title
- The Blackwall Frigates
- Author
- Lubbock, Basil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Charles E. Lauriat Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- Maritime History, Shipbuilding, Sailing, Seafaring, Sailors, England, Merchant Shipping
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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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