Merchantmen-At-Arms: The British Merchants' Service In The War
by David W. Bone
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 1919. Hardcover. Good. 1919. Limited edition. 259 pages. No dust jacket. Ivory paper covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates by Muirhead Bone. Copy 44 of 160. An additional etching is missing. Gilt top edge to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding slightly loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and rubbing to corners and crushing and bumping to spine ends. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1711732497LEE
- Title
- Merchantmen-At-Arms: The British Merchants' Service In The War
- Author
- David W. Bone
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 1919
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...