The Long Traverse
by John Buchan
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1941. First edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 7" by 5" . J. Morton Sale. First edition of this adventure novel by Scottish author John Buchan, enclosed in its unclipped dust wrapper. Eight exciting tales of adventure tales for boys telling of Vikings, gold prospectors, Indians, and more. Written by John Buchan, Scottish novelist and historian as well as a politician, who served as Governor General of Canada. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. With illustrations by J. Morton Sale. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with shelf wear, considerable damp mark to back strip, board lightly marked. Dust wrapper unclipped and sound with shelf wear, some loss to head and tail of spine and rear wrap, chipping to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 837A2
- Title
- The Long Traverse
- Author
- John Buchan
- Illustrator
- J. Morton Sale
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1941
- Size
- 7" by 5"
- Keywords
- john buchan first editions boys fiction first editions
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
About Rooke Books
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....