The Beckoning Waters
by Carse, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. The story of an immigrant Irish Captain on the Great Lakes and his rise to wealth and power during the period 1876 - 1932. The author worked for a time on Lakes vessels in the early 1920's. Original wheat cloth covers with green spine lettering. Small bookshop sticker on lower edge of the front end paper, else a A clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings. The dust jacket is complete and unmarked with a little spotting to along the rear panel fold-over and a little edge wear. For those that may be sensitive, there there is a very faint musty odor. Ref.: Black 41, Andrews, Beasecker 199; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 438 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19758
- Title
- The Beckoning Waters
- Author
- Carse, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Michigan, Fiction, Great Lakes, Ships, Immigrants
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peninsula Books
Biblio member since 2023
Traverse City, Michigan
About Peninsula Books
Peninsula Books has been providing fine and rare books to collectors, institutions and the book trade since 1980. We have a select general stock of books and specialize in Americana in its many forms. We welcome your inquiries and are always happy to answer any questions about our books. Email is usually the quickest way to have your questions answered.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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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