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The Wreck of the Grosvenor
by Russell, W. Clark
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fair
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1926. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint.. New York: Macmillan, 1926. Reprint. Near Fine/Fair. Very clean re-issue (1926) of the 1909 first edition in a tattered but pretty complete dust jacket. Blue ribbed cloth boards with stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers (no names, writing or marks - slightly tanned). 309 pages. Dust jacket is separated at flap folds, has numerous chips and closed edge tears, some long some short, small pieces missing! Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025082
- Title
- The Wreck of the Grosvenor
- Author
- Russell, W. Clark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- GROSVENOR, HISTORICAL FICTION, SEA VOYAGE, SHIPWRECK, W. CLARK RUSSELL
- Bookseller catalogs
- ships/sailing/shipwrecks;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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