CONTRABAND CARGOES - SEVEN CENTURIES OF SMUGGLING
by Williams, Neville
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1959. 301 pages. Ten b/w illustrations in text. Title page lightly foxed at spine. Page 189 has stamp at bottom, otherwise pages are clean. Foredges. lightly soiled. Endpapers worn at spine. Cover loose at front endpapers. Red cloth, gilt titile on spie. Light wear along edges. GOOD+. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038785
- Title
- CONTRABAND CARGOES - SEVEN CENTURIES OF SMUGGLING
- Author
- Williams, Neville
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Customs, Smuggling, Contraband,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
J. Wyatt Books
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Ottawa, Ontario
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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
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.