A Diversity of Creatures (Vol XXIV) ; In the Seven Seas Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good+. 1917. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 401 pages; 1917 Doubleday, Page & Company. HC Vol XXIV of the Seven Seas Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, limited to 1050 copies. This copy out of sequence and not numbered. Quarter linen cloth backed spine with printed paper title label and beige paper covered boards. Mild chipping to title label at spine; small abrasion to paper covered rear board at bottom corner. Mild shelf soiling to boards. Many page unopened top edge. VG to VG+ .
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- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49533
- Title
- A Diversity of Creatures (Vol XXIV) ; In the Seven Seas Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
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About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Unopened
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- First Edition
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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....