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THE LOG OF THE APOLLO: Joseph Perkins Beach's Journal of the Voyage of th Ship 'Apollo' from New York to San Francisco, 1849
by Beach, Joseph Perkins. Edited and Annotated by James P. Delgado
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in glassine jacket with toning to jacket edges
- Seller
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Fort Bragg, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in glassine jacket with toning to jacket edges. Blue cloth with printed paper title labels, octavo, 122 pp. Tipped-in color frontispiece, facsimiles, folding plate from photograph.
Edition of 550 copies printed at the Arion Press
Edition of 550 copies printed at the Arion Press
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- Seller
- Chanticleer Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 23570
- Title
- THE LOG OF THE APOLLO: Joseph Perkins Beach's Journal of the Voyage of th Ship 'Apollo' from New York to San Francisco, 1849
- Author
- Beach, Joseph Perkins. Edited and Annotated by James P. Delgado
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in glassine jacket with toning to jacket edges
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Book Club of California
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1986
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Chanticleer Books
Biblio member since 2007
Fort Bragg, California
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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