SHIPS & HOW THEY SAILED THE SEVEN SEAS
by Loon, Hendrik Willem Van
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Palmyra, New York, United States
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About This Item
Simon and Schuster. Good in Good dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. E--Cover may be different than that pictured. This book has a blue cloth cover with a plain front cover. On the spine is the title in gilt with some gilt decoration. Covers are moderately worn with heavier wear at corners, along edges and at spine ends. DJ is of heavy white paper and pictures color drawings of ships on the front and back with flags on the spine. DJ is double thickness and unfolds to a colored illustration inside of a map of the world. There are major tears and some chipping along the fold of the map which would also be the top edge of the folded DJ. DJ now in protective jacket. A little damp staining visible in the gutters of a few pages. Age toning to end pages. Many black and white illustrations. Signed by Hendrik Willem van Loon on front end page. Binding sound, text clean. Due to size and/or weight of the book I can only ship it domestic mail. Most orders shipped within 24 hours. A Little Store that's BIG on Service. ; 5000 B.C. - A.D. 1935; 2 x 9.4 x 6.4 Inches; 318 pages; ; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Bookmarket (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21005
- Title
- SHIPS & HOW THEY SAILED THE SEVEN SEAS
- Author
- Loon, Hendrik Willem Van
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Maritime, Hendrik Willem Van Loon
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Village Bookmarket
Biblio member since 2008
Palmyra, New York
About Village Bookmarket
Book Repair, Professional, Tender Loving Repair of your books in Distress.Books, used, antiquarian, out-of-print, and gifts including Mini Book Earrings.A Little Shop That is BIG on Service.
Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...