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Cruise of the Snap Dragon
by Barbour, Ruth P
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 091024488X
- ISBN 13
- 9780910244886
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Winston-Salem, NC: J. F. Blair, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 211 pages. Hardcover in pink, orange and black illustrated dust jacket. DJ has some wrinkling on rear cover, a small chip missing at top left of front cover, as well as general rubbing. Spine is a little sunned. Jacket flaps are foxed. Not price clipped. Edges of text block are foxed. Text is clean. Signed on the front flyleaf by North Carolina historian Lindley Butler.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045903
- Title
- Cruise of the Snap Dragon
- Author
- Barbour, Ruth P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 091024488X
- ISBN 13
- 9780910244886
- Publisher
- J. F. Blair
- Place of Publication
- Winston-Salem, NC
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- 1976; Ruth P. Barbour; Maritime; North Carolina; Literature; Lindley Butler.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina; Literature & Fiction; Maritime;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....