The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present--Vol. VI (This volume only)
by Clowes, Wm. Laird
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Ex-Library
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1901. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Volume six only! Hardcover with blue cloth boards, 1901, large octavo, 592pp., illustrated in b&w + 30 photogravures. Book ex-library with stickers, stamps, plates and numbers; otherwise edgewear to spine ends and corners that tears cloth, soil and rubbing to boards, binding mostly tight with rear inner hinge cracked, aside from library marks text clean and unmarked, with handsome gilt to top edge of text block. No DJ. THIS VOLUME ONLY.
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- Seller
- Common Crow Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- B31285
- Title
- The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present--Vol. VI (This volume only)
- Author
- Clowes, Wm. Laird
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Ex-Library
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- British History, Military History
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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