The Barbary Pirates
by Forester, C.S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Very Good in Good dust jacket. ©1953. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 187 p. 21.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Corners slightly bumped. Top edge of the text block has some foxing. Previous owner's name in pencil in box on front free endpaper. A section of about 10 pages has a tiny corner fold to the bottom fore-corner. Otherwise the inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has chips, creases and tears, mostly at spine ends and corners. The spine is faded. The story of the Barbary pirates off the coast of North Africa and how the fledgling United States navy came into its own by taking the pirates on in battle. Illustrated with duotone drawings. One of the publisher's Landmark books for children. Landmark Books No. 31 .
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- Seller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 5884
- Title
- The Barbary Pirates
- Author
- Forester, C.S
- Illustrator
- Charles J. Mazoujian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ©1953
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Series;
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....