Days and Nights by the Desert
by Parker Gillmore
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1888. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1888. No Edition Remarks. 234 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Half bound leather with brown cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrated frontispiece and illustrations. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Moderate crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate peeling to spine and corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Visible wear marks to boards.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1632205850BTH
- Title
- Days and Nights by the Desert
- Author
- Parker Gillmore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench & Co
- Date Published
- 1888
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- Half Bound
- ...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.