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Spring Tides
by Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Book. Illus. by Samuel Hanks Bryant, illustrator. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First printing.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Stated First Printing. Fine/Very Good+. Samuel Hanks Bryant, illustrator. Stated First Printing in clean original dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with green and white ship, green lettering on cover and spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright with clean light green endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated by Samuel Hanks Bryant. 80 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, small price clip to upper corner of front inside flap, a few very tiny closed edge tears; nice photo of author and his wife at helm of their yacht on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A wonderful narrative of sailing adventures by an enthusiastic victim of sea fever..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026867
- Title
- Spring Tides
- Author
- Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Illustrator
- Samuel Hanks Bryant, illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First printing.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- SHIPS, SAILING, SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON, FIRST EDITION, NAUTICAL, ADVENTURE, TRAVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; ships/sailing/shipwrecks;
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Stanley, New York
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