NY: Stein & Day. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0812827341 . Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over blue oards, gilt lettering on spine. Every sailor who is a reader and every reader who sometimes dreams of the sea loves to be enchanted by sea stories. In this book every story is true, and each is brilliantly told. Edited by John Canning. Published in England under the title "50 Strange Mysteries of the Sea.". The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The price-clipped dust jacket shows only slight shelf-wear, including a very small closed tear on the front panel, else near fine. FINE/VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 478 pp .

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Bookseller: Round Table Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 27624
Title: Fifty True Mysteries of The Sea
Author: Canning, John (ed)
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First American Edition. First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0812827341
ISBN 13: 9780812827347
Publisher: Stein & Day
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 1980
Keywords: 0812827341, Mystery;, Short Stories;, Adventure;, ADVENTURERS;, seafaring life;, Lectures;, ESSAYS;
Bookseller catalogs: Travel & Adventure;

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