Salts of The Sound : A Story of Steamboating on Long Island Sound From 1815 To The Present
by McAdam, Roger Williams
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- fair
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
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About This Item
Brattleboro, Vermont, U.S.A.: Stephen Daye Press, 1939. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Old price in ink on the ffep. Edge wear with fraying at the extremities. Some board exposure at the corners. Spine is toned. Some foxing and stains to the covers. Tips lightly bumped. Rear hinge cracked but only slightly loose. Visible wear to the cloth at the spine hinges. . Inscribed. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall, 247 Pages.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016918
- Title
- Salts of The Sound : A Story of Steamboating on Long Island Sound From 1815 To The Present
- Author
- McAdam, Roger Williams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Stephen Daye Press
- Place of Publication
- Brattleboro, Vermont, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- B000869HOQ
- Bookseller catalogs
- History, American; Nautical; Americana;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall, 247 Pages
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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