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A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago
by Forbes, Henry O
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/no dust jacket. Solid First Edition, 1885. Green silk cloth boards with gold decoration on cover, black stamped lettering on cover, gold stamped lettering on spine. Light soiling to cloth. Tiny spots of wear to corners and top and bottom spine edges. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Chocolate brown endpapers; small chip to top edge of front fixed endpaper, small mark where bookplate had been and has fallen off. Color frontispiece illustration with tissue guard. With numerous illustrations from the author's sketches and descriptions by Mr. John B. Gibbs. All six maps (including fold-outs) are present and in excellent condition. 536 pages with index, plus 4 pages of publisher's advertising at rear of book..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023987
- Title
- A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago
- Author
- Forbes, Henry O
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE, TRAVEL, NATURAL HISTORY, EXPLORATION, HENRY O. FORBES, FIRST EDITION, DECORATED AMERICAN TRADE BINDING, DATB
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; Nature; Decorated American Trade Binding;
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
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