The Sailing Ship : A study in beauty
by Rogers, Stanley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Bright blue cloth with gilt title on the spine; stamped in blind with seahorse. 11" X 8.5". Pp ix, 98. Illustrations and color plates. Frontispiece. Contents: Notes on the character of a ship -- The hull -- The sails -- The rigging -- Ship decoration -- The art of the shipwright -- Wooden ships and iron ships -- The lure of ship models -- The fore-and afters. Light bump on the corners and 2 very small (~1mm) chip along the edge of the first pastedown. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9634
- Title
- The Sailing Ship : A study in beauty
- Author
- Rogers, Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Sailing Ships, Shipbuilding - History, Shipbuilding
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ships & the Sea; Children & Young Adult; Exploration, Geography & Maps;
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E Ridge fine Books
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Lake Elsinore, California
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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