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Starboard and Port: The Nettie Along Shore
by Hepworth, Geroge H
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876. First edition, 1876. Blue cloth over beveled boards lettered and decorated in gilt, frontis map, engravings throughout. Covers rubbed, mainly to extremities, good hinges, sound text block, some light foxing to first and last few pages, a few pencil notes about the voyage written in, attractive maritime themed bookplate of Robert R. Martin inside front cover.. Facsimile. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046892
- Title
- Starboard and Port: The Nettie Along Shore
- Author
- Hepworth, Geroge H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- Facsimile
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1876
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- CANADA EXPLORATION MARITIME GASPE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Exploration, International Culture;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
We pack well and ship promptly. Returns: Books may be returned for refund of purchase price within seven days provided prior notification is given and the books are returned in the same condition as when shipped.
About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
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