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CRUISE OF THE CONRAD
by Villiers, Alan
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. A Journal of a Voyage round the World, undertaken and carried out in the Ship Joseph Conrad, 212 Tons, in the Years 1934, 1935, and 1936 by way of Good Hope, the South Seas, the East Indies, and Cape Horn. Pp. xvi+368, frontispiece, plus 30 plates, text maps and plans (a couple full page), endpaper map, appendices, glossary; demy 8vo; rebound in olive green calf over bevelled boards, spine decorated in gilt between raised bands, with gilt lettered brown leather title label, the boards faintly rubbed; later green binder's blanks, unidentified stamp on half-title page; small ink mark across bottom edge of several leaves, scattered lightly foxing and soiling; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1937. First edition..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 168378
- Title
- CRUISE OF THE CONRAD
- Author
- Villiers, Alan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
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About the Seller
Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
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Melbourne, Victoria
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- 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...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- 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....
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