The Great Splendour
by Page, Gertrude
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 359; 24pp. Octavo [20 cm] Red cloth covered boards with the title and author stamped in gold on the spine and front cover. Top edge trimmed; other edges untrimmed. With twenty-four pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. The cloth on the boards is heavily abraded, and the text block is cracked here and there. An Edwardian novel by the author of The Rhodesian.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38191
- Title
- The Great Splendour
- Author
- Page, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Hurst and Blackett, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- pbhs; lot 48; early science fiction; horror; Edwardian
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...