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The Golden Ocean
por O'Brian, Patrick
- Usado
- near fine
- Condição
- near fine
- Livreiro
-
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
New York: the John Day Company, 1957. Undetermined. near fine. 1st US Edition. 316pp. Octavo. Original yellow coated cloth covered boards with teal lettering on spine. Bump to top end of spine. Clean, tight text block. Contains an illustration (B/W) and a chart spread over two pages. In dust jacket, not price clipped. Light wear to edges of jacket with some minor chipping near the end of the spine. Light stain from sticker residue on top right corner of front of jacket. A lovely copy. near fine It tells the story of a novice midshipman, Peter Palafox, who joins Anson's 1740 circumnavigation of the globe. As with O'Brian's later AubreyÑaturin series the book contains a wealth of period detail, a smattering of historical figures including the midshipman Keppel who has a song for every occasion. 1957
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 132406
- Título
- The Golden Ocean
- Autor
- O'Brian, Patrick
- Formato/Encadernação
- Undetermined
- Estado do livro
- Usado - near fine
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Editorial
- the John Day Company
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1957
- Palavras-chave
- English Author|English Lit|First Edition|Literature|Royal Navy
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Sobre o Vendedor
Aquila Books
Membro de Biblio desde 2010
Calgary, Alberta
Sobre Aquila Books
Aquila Books specializes in books dealing with Polar Exploration, Western Canadiana, Mountaineering, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Early Voyages as well as many other areas. We also deal in antique maps and prints, historic photos, autograph letters, postcards, antique scientific instruments and antique bookcases. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Glossário
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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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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