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Price: US$25.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original blue octavo publishers boards, steam maritime gilt propulsion vignette to front board, gilt title to spine, a little soiling and edge/ corner rubbing with minor loss to corners. xiv (ii) 33 plates and 16pp of publishers publications, stain to front free endpaper, transferring to margin of frontispiece portrait of Fulton aet 43.contents slightly browned in places.
Seller: John Blanchfield, Leeds, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The binding remains tight . The book is clean , no marks other than a gift inscription on the first free endpaper . The graphics on the spine are bright . Light moisture stain to corners . Foxing to endpapers .
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1913. First Edition. 8vo. xiv,333pp, Index. Frontis portrait and 32 plates on coated stock. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Good condition: spine soiled, ends slightly frayed, partial surface break to front cover, endpapers foxed, simple library rubbed stamp on front pastedown (no other library marks). American marine engineer and inventor, Fulton developed the first commercially successful steamboat and first practical submarine.; Illustrated; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 333 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.52 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION with letter. Large octavo, pp xiv, [2], 333, [3], 16 catalogue. Numerous plates including frontispiece portrait of Fulton with tissue-guard, plus figures within text. Publishers' blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and gilt ship motif in border to upper board. Top edge gilt. Spine sunned with wear at head; upper board slightly damp-stained, and bruised to edge. Association copy: letter from W W C Frith, the Harbourmaster at South Shields, referring to his loan of the book and his enjoyment in reading it, tipped-in to ffep, and the associated reply tipped-in to front pastedown, both dated 1946. Contents clean. A Good copy. Biography of the American engineer and inventor (1765-1815) widely credited with the development of the steamboat.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Frontispiece portrait, 32 plates. xiv, 333 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth, spine gilt. Near fine Frontispiece portrait, 32 plates. xiv, 333 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.