The Giant of the North; or Pokings Round The Pole
by BALLANTYNE, R. M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
James Nisbet & Co 1882. Octavo, red cloth boards, black & gilt lettering and illus to spine & front board, brown coated eps, frontispiece, vi + 432pp + 8pp book adverts, VG (browning to page edges, light bruising & creasing to spine extrems, some chaffing to board corners, some soiling to boards, light browning to spine, owner's name stamp to front & rear pastedown & to frontispiece, light tanning)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 206125
- Title
- The Giant of the North; or Pokings Round The Pole
- Author
- BALLANTYNE, R. M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James Nisbet & Co 1882
- Keywords
- children's literature adventure fiction
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...