Bosambo of the River.
by WALLACE, Edgar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Ward, Lock & Co, London., 1914. First edition. Octavo. Colour frontispiece. First issue black blind-embossed cloth lettered in gilt with colour pictorial panel reproducing a detail from the frontispiece mounted on the front. A 304-page adventure novel.Free endpapers tanned. Very good indeed in later issue dustwrapper which is good, nicked, chipped and torn, defective at the tail of the spine. On the spine of the dustwrapper is a mark where the price sticker has been; the first issue dustwrapper had a printed price.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WALLACEE022968
- Title
- Bosambo of the River.
- Author
- WALLACE, Edgar
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co, London.
- Date Published
- 1914
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Ellis bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
LONDON
About Peter Ellis bookseller
A shop in one of the last remaining bookselling enclaves of London, with a carefully selected stock of modern first editions, art and illustrated books, travel literature and other subjects. Known for books in fine condition.
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- Spine
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- Tail
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- Dustwrapper
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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