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TO BUILD A SHIP
by Berry, Don
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good / Good Plus
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Plus. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.2 in., pp. 209. Green cloth boards with forest and shipmast design in black to cover and spine; Black title to spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Upper left corner lightly bumped; 1/8 inch dent to upper edge near corner. Light edgewear to dustjacket; small chip to lower front corner. Two small closed tears and 1/4 inch chip to rear of dustjacket. Printed in the U.S, by Vail-Ballou Press, Inc. for Viking Press.
From the dustjacket: "The strange story of a handful of young men who took up land on beautiful Tillamook Bay in Oregon in the 1850s -- defiant dreamers battling the wilderness. With the forested mountains at their backs and the open sea their sole rod to trade, they were suddenly isolated from the outside world: the only captain would would enter their harbor, once a year, had died; and so, it seemed, would their new settlement. They decided to build their own schooner. "
From the dustjacket: "The strange story of a handful of young men who took up land on beautiful Tillamook Bay in Oregon in the 1850s -- defiant dreamers battling the wilderness. With the forested mountains at their backs and the open sea their sole rod to trade, they were suddenly isolated from the outside world: the only captain would would enter their harbor, once a year, had died; and so, it seemed, would their new settlement. They decided to build their own schooner. "
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85661
- Title
- TO BUILD A SHIP
- Author
- Berry, Don
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good / Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Tillamook Bay, Survival story,Nautical, Oregon Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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