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From Australia and Japan
by M., A. [James Murdoch]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Walter Scott. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Split to gutter at front hinge. No signatures. ; Scarce. 290 pages + frontispiece + 11 plates + [18] pages advertisements. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering and illustration on spine and boards. Page dimensions: 185 x 124mm. Top page edges gilt. Fiction. Short stories, most with a Japanese setting. Contents: Felix Holt Secundus; The Wooing of Webster; A Yoshiwara Episode; The Bear Hunt on Fuji-San; A Tosa Monogatari of Modern Times; Faustus Junior, Ph. D.; Fred Wilson's Fate. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19096
- Title
- From Australia and Japan
- Author
- M., A. [James Murdoch]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Walter Scott
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- Japanese
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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