The Sailing Ships of New England 1607-1907
by Robinson, John and George Francis Dow
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Marine Research Society. Used - Very Good. 1922. Cloth, dj, small quarto, 66 pp. + 308 illustrations. Dj sunned at spine. Edge-wear to dj with small tears, chipping, and loss. Some soiling to dj. Minor foxing, per usual, to fore-edge of text block and end papers. Previous owner inscription to ffep. Internally, quite sound. Overall, very good. (Subject: Nautical.)
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Q07141
- Title
- The Sailing Ships of New England 1607-1907
- Author
- Robinson, John and George Francis Dow
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Marine Research Society
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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....
- Cloth
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- 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...
- Sunned
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...