The Real Book About Submarines
by Epstein, Samuel & Williams, Beryl
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Garden City Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 222 p. 21.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards, with stamped illustrations. Light wear to corner tips. Slightly rubbed along edges. Previous owner's name (twice) on front endpapers. Inside pages are clean and unmarked, with slight toning. Dustjacket has some wear to the spine ends, flap folds and corners, including tears and tiny chips. The spine is a little darkened. Some soiling and scratches. One of the publisher's Real Book series titles, this one featuring the story of the invention and development of submarines. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings. .
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Details
- Seller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 4165
- Title
- The Real Book About Submarines
- Author
- Epstein, Samuel & Williams, Beryl
- Illustrator
- Manning deV. Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Garden City Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Series;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- 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....
- Jacket
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually 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...