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Lore of the Lakes: Told in Story and Picture
by Dana Thomas Bowen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland, OH: Freshwater Press, 1973 Freshwater Press, Cleveland, OH. 1973. Hardcover. Stated 10th Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; scant shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Very Good; Price Clipped; light bumping and wear to head, tail, and tips. Green cloth boards and spine with black lettering on the spine and front board with ship wheel in black on the front board. Maps as endpapers. 314 pp 8vo. This book is a collection of true stories of the by-gone ships of the Great Lakes which combine romance and history with the modern vast commercial shipping on these Great Inland Seas of Freshwater. The tales feature the sturdy lake vessels from the earliest explorer and fur trader to the latest streamlined steamer. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016348
- Title
- Lore of the Lakes: Told in Story and Picture
- Author
- Dana Thomas Bowen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Freshwater Press
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland, OH
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- shipping, Great Lakes, Lake Erie, Great Lakes shipping, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Ontario, Lake Huron, steam ships, Grate Lakes tales, shipping stories, memories of Great Lakes Shipping, sailor yarns freighter ships, passenger ships, ship disaste
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoirs; Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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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