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Facing Death; or, the Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines
by Henty, G. A
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: The Independence Co.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Gordon Browne. 12mo. 243 pages. Hardcover bound in dark grey pictorial cloth with cover designs embossed in red and black. The gilt title on the spine is partially rubbed off. Bumping, fraying at headcap/foot. A piece of the thread used to bind the signatures has come loose at the headcap. Corners are bumped. Prior owner's name inscribed on front flyleaf. The text is toned, has occasional foxing and dog-eared corners.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051675
- Title
- Facing Death; or, the Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines
- Author
- Henty, G. A
- Illustrator
- Gordon Browne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Independence Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾\" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- G A Henty; Children Books; Juvenile; Young adult fiction; Coal mines;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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