Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1964. Book. Illus. by Rosenfeld, Morris. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1964. First edition. 4to. Beige cloth with blue lettering embossed on spine and blue numbers embossed on spine with a reversed blind stamp of those numbers above to look like racing numbers on a sailboat's mainsail, endpapers decorated with a sailboat race scene, frontispiece and illustrations in black and white, 240 pp. No dust jacket. Spine is sunned and blue embossing is fading, but bindings are sharp and quite solid. Text block is clean, bright and appears gently read. Very good condition.[b969].

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Bookseller: Rose's Books, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: EM-B0239-19
Title: Cornelius Shields on Sailing
Author: Shields, Cornelius
Illustrator: Rosenfeld, Morris
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Place of Publication: Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Date Published: 1964
Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
Keywords: SAILBOAT RACING YACHTING
Bookseller catalogs: Sailing and Maritime Affairs; Sports and Outdoors;

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First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...