BEFORE THE MAST IN THE CLIPPERS: Composed in Large Part of The Diaries of Charles A. Abbey Kept While at Sea in the Years 1856 to 1860
by Gosnell, Harpur Allen/Abbey, Charles A
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. 284 pp. Original brown paper covered boards w/ red cloth spine and corners. Titles in gilt. Binding lightly soiled. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Faint tape ghosts to edges of endpapers and paste-downs. Light foxing to front endpapers. #521 of 950 copies. Illust. w/ a color frontispiece, b/w plates and portraits, and fold-out maps. Contents nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22801NAUT
- Title
- BEFORE THE MAST IN THE CLIPPERS: Composed in Large Part of The Diaries of Charles A. Abbey Kept While at Sea in the Years 1856 to 1860
- Author
- Gosnell, Harpur Allen/Abbey, Charles A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- The Derrydale Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- NAUTICAL HISTORY MARITIME BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY ABBEY CHARLES A. DIARY DIARIES 1856 1860 CLIPPER SHIPS SEAFARING LIFE VOYAGES AND TRAVELS TRAVEL NONFICTION GENERAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical; Autobiography;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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- 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...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
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