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Sea Fight Off Monhegan: Enterprise and Boxer
by Picking, Sherwood
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Cohoes, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Machigonne Press, Portland, Maine, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Blue gilt stamped cloth over boards, map on end papers, black-and-white frontispiece of the "Enterprize and Boxer", xi, 196 pages, Bibliography, six illustrations, title page and chapter headings decorated. Corners and spine ends bumped with some wear, front cover foxed, gilt fading a bit, some foxing & soil on end papers, frontispiece foxed (interior is not foxed and there is no mildew odor). The capture of HMS Boxer in 1813 was a naval battle of the War of 1812, in which the United States Navy brig USS Enterprise defeated the Royal Navy brig HMS Boxer. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 4 oz. Category: Ships & the Sea; Books; Military & Warfare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 009644. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dennis Holzman Antiques
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009644
- Title
- Sea Fight Off Monhegan: Enterprise and Boxer
- Author
- Picking, Sherwood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Machigonne Press
- Place of Publication
- Portland, Maine
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- BZDB7 NOISBN Sea Fight Off Monhegan: Enterprise and Boxer, Sherwood Picking, naval battles War of 1812 Ships & the Sea; Books; Military & Warfare. Sea Fight Off Monhegan Enterprise and Boxer Picking Sherwood
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Dennis Holzman Antiques
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About the Seller
Dennis Holzman Antiques
Biblio member since 2003
Cohoes, New York
About Dennis Holzman Antiques
Dennis Holzman Antiques, est. 1975, sells select antiques, hard-to-find & antiquarian books, manuscripts, and autographs both on-line and our Cohoes, N.Y. shop. We take pride in our accurate & complete book descriptions, our fast shipping, and our attention to customer service. All of our on-line books are in stock and ready to ship within 48 hours of receiving your order/payment. We answer all inquiries and welcome your questions. Visit our website: www.holzmanantiques.com
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- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Mildew
- Mildew is an all-too-common affliction that plagues books and erodes their collectibility, value and preservation. A fungus...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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