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Botany Bay
by Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fair
- Seller
-
Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1941. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. 5-3/4" x 8-1/4. 374 numbered pages. First Edition. Original blue cloth, silver illustration and design on front board, silver lettering and design to spine, endpaper maps. N.C. Wyeth jacket design. A quite collectible first printing. Bright, clean, tight, and square text block, no marks of any kind. Corners sharp. Fore-edges of the leaves are rough-cut, top edge stained maroon as issued. Unclipped ($2.50) DJ in clear archival protector. DJ shows minimal chipping to top of rear panel. Shipped in a sturdy cardboard box for added protection.
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Details
- Bookseller
- McKenzie Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002931
- Title
- Botany Bay
- Author
- Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1941
- Size
- 5-3/4" x 8-1/4
Terms of Sale
McKenzie Company
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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