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Used-Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket) Undated, but probably a reprint c.1938, as prize bookplate on front free edn paper dated June 1928. Page fore-edge foxed; binding tight; head & foot of spine a little bumped. Decorated blue cloth, with illustration of building the canal on front board, & sea rescue on spine.
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Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. Thick 8vo. 8 full-page color illustrations by William Rainey. Original pictorial blue cloth, spine and upper cover with a scene depicting dredging of the canal with two men in the foreground stamped in gilt, light blue, tan and black, glazed green edges (slight rubbing to extremities). Very good. 384 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates.
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WILLIAM RAINEY, R. I. 5 1/2 X 7 3/4. Decorated blue boards with gold gilt lelttering on spine and front cover, bookplate to inside front cover and previous owners name, all edges gilt, corners frayed and at top of spine, frontispiece and illustrations, pages have some browning around edges and some spotting _PAB_