Ships, ships, I will descrie you Amidst the main, I will come and try you, What you are protecting, And projecting, What's your end and aim. One goes abroad for merchandise and trading, Another stays to keep his country from invading, A third is coming home with rich and wealthy lading
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Ships, ships, I will descrie you Amidst the main, I will come and try you, What you are protecting, And projecting, What's your end and aim. One goes abroad for merchandise and trading, Another stays to keep his country from invading, A third is coming home with rich and wealthy lading
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Add this copy of The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by My Dead Aunt's Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hyattsville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1864 by G.P. Putnam.
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Very GOOD in NONE jacket. 427 pages in hand-size embossed navy blue cloth boards with no dust jacket. Likely part of a set. 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 1 inches. Gilt title and decoration on spine. Added chocolate brown endpapers with an old bookstore sticker and previous owner's stamped name on end papers and flyleaf. All page edges are gilt. All pages are unmarked. Illustrated portrait of author as frontispiece with tissue. A few pages have minor foxing. Each corner of the boards are bumped with heavy wear exposing board and each end of spine has wear and pieces missing along edges of spine and some edges fraying.
Add this copy of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon to cart. $57.42, good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1843 by Bernhard Tauchnitz.
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None. Good. The Tauchnitz Edition of Washington Irving's popular essay and short story collection. The Tauchnitz authorised edition of 'The Sketch Book', a collection of thirty-four essays and short stories written by American author Washington Irving. Â In a half crushed morocco binding, with marbled boards. Â With a portrait frontispiece. Â This work was among the first widely read works of American literature in Britain and Europe, and helped advance the reputation of American writers with an international audience. Â Containing the pieces which made both Irving and 'The Sketch Book' famous, short stories 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', as well essays dealing with American subjects, such as 'English Writers on America'. Â In a half crushed morocco binding with marbled boards. Externally, smart, with rubbing to the extremities and marks to the leather. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, with scattered spots throughout. A couple contemporary ink inscriptions to the front free endpaper. Good.
