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Great Storms and Famous Shipwrecks of the New England Coast
by Snow, Edward Rowe
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- hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
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About This Item
Boston: Yankee Publishing Company, 1944. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Clean Second Edition in dust jacket with lovely map laid in. Maroon cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with beautifully illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white plates, mostly photographs, some of them rare. 354 pages, with index of Souther New England Shipwrecks. Folded map of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay including Cape Cod and Cape Ann is in perfect condition (laid in). Jacket is clean (slightly age-toned), with small chip at base of spine and very shallow chipping at top spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 023105
- Title
- Great Storms and Famous Shipwrecks of the New England Coast
- Author
- Snow, Edward Rowe
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Yankee Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date published
- 1944
- Keywords
- New England shipwrecks, nautical, maritime history, Second Edition, New England Coast map, Edward Rowe Snow, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Bay, Cape Cod, Cape Ann
- Bookseller catalogs
- ships/sailing/shipwrecks; New England;
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