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Letters of Travel (1892-1913)
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine /Good
- Seller
-
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co, Ltd. 1920. 8vo. First Edition. vi, 284, 4 pp. Red cloth binding with stamped gilt decoration to front and gilt letting to spine. Original dust jacket, brown with monochrome printed title and monogram - uncommon to find in its jacket. Top edge gilt, publisher's catalogue at rear. Jacket is chipped and torn at head of spine and corners with a large section of loss to corner of rear panel. Boards clean and bright with minor rubbing to spine ends. Binding firm. Internally very clean and bright, with minor foxing to fore-edge and a prize bookplate dated 1945 from Bideford Grammar School. . Fine. Gilt Lettered Cloth. First Edition. 1920.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69091
- Title
- Letters of Travel (1892-1913)
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Gilt Lettered Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co, Ltd. 1920
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- 8vo.
- Keywords
- Rudyard Kipling ,Travel ,Letters
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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About the Seller
Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
Biblio member since 2005
London, Greater London
About Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
We process internet and mail orders swiftly and have daily collections. Within the UK we ship via Royal Mail and UPS. For the US we use USPS tracked services and Fedex. For the rest of the World we mostly use Royal Mail Tracked, as well as Parcelforce and DPD. European deliveries we use Royal Mail Tracked or brokers for all else.
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We have an open bookshop in London which is open Monday to Saturday 10.30 to 17.30, and Sunday from 11.00 to 17.00, except Easter and Christmas.We are members of the ABA, ILAB, PBFA and ibooknet
Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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