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Doubleday & Co., Inc, 1971-01-01. Hardcover. Good. A good copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean. Olive green cloth covered boards are good but front cover has two very mild blemishes along bottom edge. Dust jacket is good but price has been from top corner of front inside flap. Bottom edge has some speckling/staining. The speckling is ink and is not foxing.
A Book of Islands by Bowman, John S. \(Editor\) - 1971
by Bowman, John S. \(Editor\)
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A Book of Islands
by Bowman, John S. \(Editor\)
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Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1971. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1971. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated First Edition. Clean khaki cloth boards with brown lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean brown endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 345 pgs. with index. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped, tiny shallow water mark at base of spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. An anthology of short stories, all with islands as the setting, by authors such as Daniel Defoe, Jules Verne, Washington Irving, Golding, among others. 8vo. Literature..
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- Publisher Doubleday & Co.
- Place of Publication Garden City
- Date Published 1971
- Keywords FICTION ANTHOLOGY ISLANDS IN LITERATURE SHORT STORIES
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A Book of Islands
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A Book of Islands
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Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise clean throughout. DJ has light wear on edges.
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A Book of Islands
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VG+/G+ Doubleday Garden City 1971 reprint hardcover 8vo, 345 pages. Selections from fictional writings dealing with islands from Homer, Bellamy, Defoe, Verne, Irving, Doyle, Golding, etc. Dustjacket price clipped with 3/4" square skiff on spine. Solid clean copy with djbright in protective cover.
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A Book of Islands
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Doubleday. 1st printing,1971. Very Good/Very Good- hard cover. 8vo,cloth,345pp. edgewear,tears,rubbing,price clipped dust jacket. remainder spray footedge. light yellowing.
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A BOOK OF ISLANDS
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NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1971. Hardback. 345 pages .
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A Book of Islands
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Doubleday, 1971. First Edition . Cloth. Good/Good. (1st) Brown cloth, darker brown lettering on spine very fine, purple inside covers and adjacent end papers, first front end paper removed, 345 lightly browned pages plus brief biographical note. Writing on islands by Homer, Lucian, Swift, Edward Bellamy, Defoe, Verne, Wells, Hearn, Kipling, Golding, Melville and many more. DJ has light green background with antique map of Caribbean Islands, title and author with purple background at top front right, spine too. DJ has slight wear with micronicks at top tips, tiny worn places along front bookfold edge, very slightly rubbed on front and spine, slight surface wear with micronicks at spine top and bottom edge, tiny tear with creases at bottom back tip. DJ and book, both just Good.
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A Book of Islands
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North Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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NY: Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. Very light edge wear in DJ with light edge wear, wear and creasing to spine ends and corners. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. ; A book on the use of Islands in fiction ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 345 pages . bx 701
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A BOOK OF ISLANDS
by Bowman, John S
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Westport, Connecticut, United States
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ with light wear to extremities; An anthology of writings on the appeal of islands by noted authors such as Jules Verne, Washington Irving, A. C. Doyle, among others. ; 8vo; 345 pages .
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A Book of Islands
by Bowman, John S. (ed)
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company. As New in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's laminated pictorial cloth, purple endpapers. A Doubleday Reinforced Library Edition. Includes works by: Homer, Jonathan Swift, Washington Irving, Daniel Defoe, Lafcadio Hearn, Jules Verne, Liam O'Flaherty, W Somerset Maugham, William Golding, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Alexandre Dumas, Herman Melville and many others.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket is only mildly shelf-worn. AS NEW/NEAR FINE. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xiv, 345, (1) pp .
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New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1971. 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 344pp. very good. / good, chipped d/w. .
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