ROPEMAKERS OF PLYMOUTH: A History of the Plymouth Cordage Company 1824-1949
by Morison, Samuel Eliot
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good+
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston/Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press, 1950. 178 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Light foxing throughout. DJ has wear and tear to edges w/ approx. 1" wide x 1/2" deep piece missing from top edge of front panel. Moderately soiled and rubbed. Illust. w/ a color frontispiece, b/w plates, and b/w figures of how to tie knots. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18630IND
- Title
- ROPEMAKERS OF PLYMOUTH: A History of the Plymouth Cordage Company 1824-1949
- Author
- Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston/Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- INDUSTRY BUSINESS ECONOMY ECONOMICS PLYMOUTH CORDAGE COMPANY 1824 1949 ROPEMAKERS ROPEMAKING ROPES CORDS USEFUL KNOTS TYING KNOTS AMERICANA MASSACHUSETTS STATE HISTORY MA AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES NONFICTION GENERAL AUTHORS MORISON SAMUEL ELIOT 1887
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- Industry; Economics;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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