A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon
by John Murray
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Murray, 1920. Hardcover. Good. 1920. Tenth edition. 726 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Many fold-out colour maps. Additional large map in pocket at rear. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding slightly loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering is strongly dulled. Book has slight backwards lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1713516426ALK
- Title
- A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon
- Author
- John Murray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Date Published
- 1920
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...