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The Steam Yachts: An Era of Elegance
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Price: $24.00
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Description
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Title:
The Steam Yachts: An Era of Elegance
ISBN: 0828600406
Book #: 008708
Author: Hofman, Erik
Illustrator: n/a
Publisher: John De Graf, Inc.
Place: Tuckahoe, New York
Year: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Book Cond.: Very Good Condition
Jacket Cond.: Good
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 4to
Book Type: n/a
Signed: n/a
Description / Comments:
Size: 4to. 272 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Red gilt stamped cloth over boards, illustrated endpapers, Index, Bibliography, List of Yachts, illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped, stain on fore edges of pages where something splattered (does not affect pages). In a black-and-white pictorial dust jacket that is worn, chipped, scuffed. In a Brodart jacket. "During the first two decades of the 20th century, steam yachts were the most impressive status symbol man has ever devised. These floating palaces were decorated and furnished as elaborately as the most luxurious mansion ashore. Here collected in one place are the facts, figures, and social significance of 120 of the most dramatic yachts. The author discusses only the larger ones, 70 feet or more in length. He presents 130 photographs and 170 drawings." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 10 oz. Category: Ships & the Sea; ISBN: 0828600406. ISBN/EAN: 9780828600408. Inventory No: 008708. |
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