THE RUNNING OF THE TIDE
by Esther Forbes
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG++/No Jacket
- Seller
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Mansonville, Quebec, Canada
Item Price
€9.30€7.44
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1948. THE RUNNING OF THE TIDE- Esther Forbes- Houghton Mifflin- Boston 1948-BCE- hardcover:-8vo- VG++/ no dj- original publisher's red cloth with blue title on cove rand spine- 632 pp. are clean, no tears or writing-. Solid and square-textblock and spine.- SEE PHOTOS-"Chapter One : Hewn logs spliced and bolted formed a spine which rested upon bed-blocks. In turn this rested upon the gray gravel of her mother, Salem. Upon the keel , the keelson. At the bows, the stem. At the stern, the stern post. Ribs of oak sprang up and out. The unborn thing had a skeleton. Anyone could see this was to be a ship.-A rousing swift-moving story of clipper ships and their crews and their home-port in Salem in Massachusetts. For the Inman family - merchants, shipowners, and even privateers - the wide world is an oyster.-Fiction-adventure-sea-Salem (1530) . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth. VG++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Seller
- jakoll (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1530
- Title
- THE RUNNING OF THE TIDE
- Author
- Esther Forbes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Publisher
- Houghton-Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Fiction-adventure-sea-Salem
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
jakoll
Payment must be received within 7 working days. Payments by cheque will be held 10 working days to clear. Full refund of purchase price only if item has been misdescribed as pertains to condition. Mailing costs non-refundable. Item must be returned in the same condition as it was originally sent out for refund conditions to apply.
About the Seller
jakoll
Biblio member since 2007
Mansonville, Quebec
About jakoll
We specialize in Modern 1st Edition, Children's books, Vintage classics, vinyl records, original movie posters, sports cards, comics, postage stamps and coins.We only sell online at this time and have been doing so for over 30 years.
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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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- Cloth
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