Don Sturdy on the Ocean Floor or The Strange Cruise of the Phanton
by Appleton, Victor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greenwood, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1931. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good cloth first edition with black lettering on spine and gilt lettering on front cover. No DJ. Some shelf wear on spine and bottom of spine. Rounded corners. Abrasions and discoloration on spine and covers. Former owner's name inscribed inside from cover. Two pages are creased. All pages show tanning commensurate with age. 204 pages.
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- Bookseller
- William Ramsey Rare Books & Manuscripts
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000195
- Title
- Don Sturdy on the Ocean Floor or The Strange Cruise of the Phanton
- Author
- Appleton, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Pages
- 204
- Keywords
- novel, fiction, literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
William Ramsey Rare Books & Manuscripts
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Greenwood, South Carolina
About William Ramsey Rare Books & Manuscripts
William Ramsey Rare Books & Manuscripts specializes in modern poetry and southern history, with an emphasis on first and signed editions.
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Inscribed
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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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- 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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