Samuel Smiley (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Included. A book on making miniatures of famous U.S. Sailing vessels, Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Cover has light wear and soiling. A few pages are corner creased/corner bumped. Text unmarked. Pages tanning. Good solid binding. Ships Next Business Day.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. First Edition. Gray cloth; blue ink title and spine. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and detailed diagrams. Faint rubbing to cover extremities. Lower front cover corner bumped. Clean and tight in a heavily edgeworn dust jacket with several irregular closed tears and creases. Front flap was previously detached from front panel of jacket but has been repaired with archival tape. Front panel bright; rear panel (white) lightly soiled.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition, stated. Gray cloth. No jacket. 141 pp. Black and white photos and line drawings throughout. A guide to building waterline models of various ships in the US Navy, including a history of the ships and their use in battles, as well as some technical information. Includes the USS Missouri, Washington, Saratoga, Enterprise, Princeton, Baltimore, Salt Lake City, Birmingham, Dallas, Neosho and others. VERY GOOD condition. Minor toning, bumping and edgewear. Some browning to the paper in the interior.

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York:W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (1947). 1st edition. 141pp. Illustrated. Hardover with dust jacket. End-pages slightly age-toned, but otherwise a very good, clean copy inside and out. No previous owners marks or signatures. The dust jacket is still in one piece, but soiled, with shelfwear to all edges and folds, including small chips and tears. It is not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

1st edition. 200 pp. 9" x 5-3/4" General wear to wrappers and tanning to edges. Chipping to title label pasted to spine. Previous tape repair evident to bottom of spine. A VG copy. Beige printed paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.

Hard Back / Cloth Binding. Condition: Very Good. Fully Illustrated (illustrator). Quality Hardback : hard cover edition in Very Good condition, some slight wear to edges, as normal for age of book; and in a Good Dust Jacket with some egdewear and slight chipping. Overall good / nice copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself, or would make a GREAT GIFT for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. Book is published with a typo in the title, positive is spelled postive. Small sticker on ffep covers previous owner note. Book.