Glasgow: James Brown & Son. Red cloth boards with gilt title and to spine. 163pp. b/w plates. Spine is sunned with bumps. Some shelf wear to covers. Text block has foxing and tanning. Contents are clean and bright but outer pages have some foxing also. Considering age, a lovely copy. OVERSEAS ORDERS MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING. . Good. Hardcover. 1925.

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Bookseller: Broad Street Book Centre (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 110369
Title: The Western Ocean Packets
Author: Lubbock, Basil
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: James Brown & Son
Place of Publication: Glasgow
Date Published: 1925
Keywords: packet ships American western ocean history unit seven

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Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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....
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....
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...