Colonel Quaritch, V. C. : a Tale of Country Life
by Haggard, H. Rider
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. First one-volume edition. 341 pages. Bevel-edged boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Signature on inside front cover dated 1888. Hinges cracked internally. Top page edges dusty. Pages clean and bright. ; 12mo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000183
- Title
- Colonel Quaritch, V. C. : a Tale of Country Life
- Author
- Haggard, H. Rider
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1889
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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- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...