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The Ship Beautiful
by C.R. Allen
- Used
- acceptable
- hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
Item Price
$9.13
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About This Item
Frederick Warne and Co., 1925. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1925. Second Impression. 279 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned with visible foxing throughout. Cracks to guttering, causing pages to become loose. Black marks to text block edges. Thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have heavy edge wear with corner bumping. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Heavy water staining and black marks to all surfaces. Book is bowed and forward leaning.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1587379513CDB
- Title
- The Ship Beautiful
- Author
- C.R. Allen
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne and Co.
- Date Published
- 1925
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched... [More]
- 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.... [More]
- plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,... [More]
- jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps... [More]
- acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists... [More]
- 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.... [More]
- edges
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