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Trading under Sail off Japan 1860-99
by Will, Captain John Baxter \(George Alexander Lensen, Editor\)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo: Sophia University (In cooperation with the Diplomatic Press, Tallahassee, Florida), 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Tokyo: Sophia University (In cooperation with the Diplomatic Press, Tallahassee, Florida), 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Beautiful book in original dust jacket. Golden beige cloth boards with red title box, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear, slight rubbing to red title box background. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean, with clean patterned endpapers. Previous owner name neatly ink-stamped at top edge of half-title page. Frontispiece is a Japanese drawing of Captain Will, used by him as his bookplate. Lovely illustrations, many of them fold-out. 190 pages with index. Clean dust jacket with price intact (12.50 on upper corner of front inside flap), small clip to lower corner of front inside flap, no chips, one tiny closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025893
- Title
- Trading under Sail off Japan 1860-99
- Author
- Will, Captain John Baxter \(George Alexander Lensen, Editor\)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Sophia University (In cooperation with the Diplomatic Press, Tallahassee, Florida)
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- SHIPS, SAILING, 19TH CENTURY, JAPAN, CAPTAIN JOHN BAXTER WILL, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- ships/sailing/shipwrecks; Japan;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Jacket
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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