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The Ocean River: The Story of the Gulf Stream
by Chapin, Henry and Walton Smith, F.G
- Used
- first
- Condition
- very good: name on front paste down/FFEP, text clean, binding tight, minimal handling wear, spine slightly cocked, soiling top o/good: age wear, chipping and scuffing, small closed tears at base of spine
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. first edition. hardcover. very good: name on front paste down/FFEP, text clean, binding tight, minimal handling wear, spine slightly cocked, soiling top of text block./good: age wear, chipping and scuffing, small closed tears at base of spine. Octavo 325pp. from inside flap: "The Ocean River is that tremendous current, the Gulf Stream, and here for the first time its complete scientific and historical story is told. This beautifully written book fully explains a phenomenon which has had, and is having, an incalculable influence on the history and civilizations of the Atlantic community and therefore on the whole world." #00541.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 507
- Title
- The Ocean River
- Author
- Chapin, Henry and Walton Smith, F.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: name on front paste down/FFEP, text clean, binding tight, minimal handling wear, spine slightly cocked, soiling top o
- Jacket Condition
- good: age wear, chipping and scuffing, small closed tears at base of spine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- science, ocean, environment, nonfiction, first edition
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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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