United Kingdom: Macdonald. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1965. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. A Near Fine 2nd edition hardcover (stated), in Very Good dustjacket. Book is in clean light green cloth, bumped to spine heel and very lightly sunned to spine head. Internally, no writing or stamps. Clean, bright pages throughout. The price-clipped dustjacket is very lightly worn to edges, with small closed tears to spine head. A very nice copy. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 168 pages .

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Bookseller: The Old Bookshelf (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 58035
Title: The Steel Navy A History In Silhouette 1860- 1963
Author: Dolby, James
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: Second Revised Edition
Publisher: Macdonald
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
Date Published: 1965
Keywords: Maritime, Naval Vessels, Ships, Silhouettes
Bookseller catalogs: Maritime;

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Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016

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Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Heel: The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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....
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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...