The Somers Mutiny
de Carlisle, Henry
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 057501511X
- ISBN 13
- 9780575015111
- Librería
-
Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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Sobre este artículo
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Some shelf wear to unclipped DJ, some foxing to inside covers, endpapers, and edges of reading block. ; First UK edition, first printing with no other printings listed,1972. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Wrap around DJ artwork by Andrew Soltysik. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 256 pages; Originally published in America as Voyage to the First of December. On 1st December 1842, an eighteen-year-old midshipman and two seaman are hanged for conspiring to mutiny aboard th US Navy brig Somers. The captain, Commander MacKenzie, and his officers are exonorated on all charges of acting wrongfully at a court-martial. But over a century later the private papers of the ship's surgeon, Dr Leacock, come to light giving more details of the tragic conflict between captain and midshipman. Perhaps MacKenzie took the only possible course to suppress a mutiny, or perhaps his motives were less than pure. .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 32205
- Título
- The Somers Mutiny
- Autor
- Carlisle, Henry
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edición
- First British Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 057501511X
- ISBN 13
- 9780575015111
- Editorial
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1972
- Palabras clave
- 19th Century Warfare, Wooden Ships
- Catálogos del vendedor
- wooden ships;
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
