London: Lock 1920, 1920-01-01. 1st Thus,. Hardcover. VG+/GD+/ND. Box 49 HARDBACK ""CHILDREN'S CLASSIC,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1920.* Pub: Ward Lock & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Grey textured cloth covered boards with a black frame and a circular picture of a sea scene tipped on to front board. Black titles & decoration to spine. Minor bumps & rubs. Considerable wear to edges, corners, head & tail of spine. GD* jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND.* Contents condition: Prize gift inscription dated 1925 to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, a few very slight marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. Some slight toning to all edges. VG+* Illustrations: Coloured full page illustration to frontis. * Pages: 319 pp. text. iv pp. advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Description: Fifteen-year-old Ralph, mischievous young Peterkin and clever, brave Jack are shipwrecked on a coral reef with only a telescope and a broken pocketknife between them. At first the island seems a paradise, with its plentiful foods and wealth of natural wonders. But then a party of cannibals arrives, and after that a pirate ship...what is to become of them? * A NEAR VG++ reprint copy thus with some age and wear reducing it to GD.* 0

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10030
Title: THE CORAL ISLAND A TALE OF THE PACIFIC ISLAND
Author: R.M.Ballantyne
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG+/GD+/ND
Edition: 1st Thus,
Publisher: London: Lock 1920
Date Published: 1920-01-01
Pages: 323
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Tail: The heel of the spine.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
1st Thus: This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
ND: no publisher's date given
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...