He Died Old: Mithradates Eupator, King of Pontus
by Alfred Duggan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber and Faber, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1958. First Edition. 208 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains fold-out map and timeline. Pages are bright and clear with light tanning to free endpapers and text block edges. retail sticker on front paste-down, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped dust jacket has light wear to surfaces with slight creasing and tearing along edges. Price sticker on front panel, with an overall faint tan.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1688561939MXP
- Title
- He Died Old: Mithradates Eupator, King of Pontus
- Author
- Alfred Duggan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Date Published
- 1958
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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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...