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Kai Lung's Golden Hours
by Bramah, Ernest
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Jonathan Cape / The Travellers' Library, London, 1935. Jonathan Cape / The Travellers' Library. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. preface by Hilaire Belloc. Blue coloured boards with gilt decoration and titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Part of the Kai Lung series written in the 1920s and 30s, with sly humour and subtle digs. Softening of the backstrip images with bumping of the book corners and rubbing of the lower book edges. A little flecking to the lower book edges. Light browning of the text block edges with faint foxing to the top text block edge. Age toning of the textbook edges. Gift inscription to the free front end paper. Offset tanning and quite heavy foxing to the endpapers. Chipping to the dustwrapper edges and backstrip edges. Small tears to the dustwrapper edges and splits to the fold over creases. Sunning of the backstrip with the results of insect activity also present. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], VII - XV, [1] 306, [3] 2 - 39 [1] – list of titles from publishing house] pages,. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Humour. Inventory No: 0119978. .
Synopsis
Originally published: New York : G.H. Doran Co., c1923.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0119978
- Title
- Kai Lung's Golden Hours
- Author
- Bramah, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Jonathan Cape / The Travellers' Library
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape / The Travellers' Library
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Kai Lung -- Series, Adult Fantasy, 1920s Fantasy, The Travellers' Library - series Science Fiction & Fantasy; Humour. Unbranded Bramah, Ernest Kai Lung's Golden Hours
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Offset
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- 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....
- SL.
- slight
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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