Fore-and-Afters
by Crowninshield, B.B
- Used
- good
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Dover, New Hampshire, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First edition. Beige cloth in rice paper jacket, housed in red cardboard box, with an illustration on the top lid. 100 pp., plus 64 black and white plates, including photos and illustrations. A survey and history of various sailing vessels, including privateers, merchant sloops, cargo schooners, sailing vessels of the Great Lakes, yachts and yachtsmen, etc. With short but detailed descriptions of individual ships and their captains, as well as photos and illustrations of many ships. Written by B.B. Crowninshield, a shipbuilder based in Somerset, Massachusetts. Book in GOOD+ condition. Heavy browning to the jacket. Some foxing and minor soiling to the cloth covers. Moderate foxing to the endpapers. Box in FAIR condition, being heavily scuffed and worn, with three of the corner split. Small piece of tape at one corner.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mare Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017534
- Title
- Fore-and-Afters
- Author
- Crowninshield, B.B
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Noisbn
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime History;
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About the Seller
Mare Booksellers
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Dover, New Hampshire
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...