The Nitrate Clippers
by LUBBOCK, BASIL
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Brown, Son & Ferguson. first edition, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xii+159pp, illus, (VG) plates loose owners name to fep and half title page moderate tanning to pages with light wear to extermities , d/w (G) scarce in d/w major wear to d/w
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- Title
- The Nitrate Clippers
- Author
- LUBBOCK, BASIL
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Brown, Son & Ferguson
- Keywords
- nautical history basil lubbock
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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- Half Title
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