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Under Fire With Farragut: The Signal Boy's Story (in original dust jacket)
by Bodder, Chas, H
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- fine/very good
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Signal Boy Publications, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. fine/very good. Presumed first edition. Hardcover navy blue cloth lettered in gilt and with an oval black and white portrait of "The Signal Boy" on front cover. 210 pp. Frontispiece phototgraphic portrait of Admiral Farragut and four additional plates. Very scarce work by an obscure publisher of historical-based fiction about the Navy during the Civil War; it portrays actual life on an American man-o-war, presented under the character and in the language of a sailor boy. A tight, bright example, 1934 gift inscription from a mother to her son on the front free endpaper and repeated on the front pastedown hidden by the jacket flap. In the original two-color illustrated dust jacket, evenly soiled, wear at the spine extremities and with a small hole bottom right corner of front flap.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E10562B
- Title
- Under Fire With Farragut: The Signal Boy's Story (in original dust jacket)
- Author
- Bodder, Chas, H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Signal Boy Publications
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- children, navy, boys, adventure, civil war, juvenile, ships, farragut,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
TRACKING AND INSURANCE AT OPTION OF BUYER. ON UNINSURED ITEMS, OUR RESPONSIBILITY ENDS WITH PROOF OF SHIPPING---NO EXCEPTIONS! Books are returnable if misdescribed; we must be notified within 48 hours of receipt if making a return. We conform to accepted ABAA grading. "First edition" means "first printing" unless noted; if it doesn't say it has a jacket then it doesn't; faults such as ownership signatures, price clipping, etc. will be noted in the listing. Member ABAA, ILAB, ABNJ.
About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
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- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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