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The Colonial Clippers
by Lubbock, Basil
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
Glasgow, Scotland: Brown, Son, & Ferguson Ltd., 1975. 2nd Edition 4th Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xvi, 384pp w appendices and index. Index plates and plans all collated to index. Blue cloth w blindstamp lettering to cover, gold lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ is clean, however previous owner has neatly trimmed top and bottom edges w masking tape (3/8") to guard against edgewear and reinforced backside of the spine and fore edges the same (not visible). Octavo. Fourth printing, 1975, of the second (new) edition of 1948. stated.
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- Bookseller
- Post Horizon Booksellers
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046582
- Title
- The Colonial Clippers
- Author
- Lubbock, Basil
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition 4th Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Brown, Son, & Ferguson Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Clipper ships, (Clippers). Great Britain -- Merchant marine. Merchant marine -- Great Britain. Clipper ships. NOISBN History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Railway / Marine / Transport and Transportation;
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
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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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Blindstamp
- A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...
- 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...
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