Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1948. Second Impression. 384 pages. Sailing Alone Around The World & Voyage Of The Liberdade. Pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth with blue lettering. Various signatures on half title page with dedication to former owner. Contains illustrated pages, and black and white photographic plate. Pages are moderately tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Notable rubbing to pages 226-227, with rubbing and a few small nicks along text block edge. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with mild bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a subtle forward lean. Unclipped jacket has heavy surface wear, with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing to spine ends, edges and corners. Moderately tanned, with water staining to upper edge.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1693403106CRI
Title: Sailing Alone Around The World & Voyage Of The Liberdade
Author: Joshua Slocum
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis
Date Published: 1948

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Half Title: The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...