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Nine Vanguards.
by Kemp, P. K
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London, New York, Melbourne, Sydney, and Cape Town: Hutchison & Co., 1951. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 236 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in red cloth with no dust jacket. The binding is soiled and dulled from handling. The inner hinges are secure. Outside edges of the text block are foxed. Foxing also to the endpapers, title page and prelims. The text itself is a bit toned but is generally clean. Illustrated with photos.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051617
- Title
- Nine Vanguards.
- Author
- Kemp, P. K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Hutchison & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London, New York, Melbourne, Sydney, and Cape Town
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1951; P. K. Kemp; Nine Vanguards; Ship; Ships; Maritime; Navy; World War Two; WWII; History; Sailing; English; British.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime; World War II;
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:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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