A Pirate of the Caribbees
by Harry Collingwood
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Griffith Farran Browne & Co, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Stated. 343 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing throughout. Slightly more pronounced to text block edges, pastedowns, and endpapers. Mild cracking to hinges, exposing netting. However all pages remain attached. Plates are bright and clear, with some light tanning to edges. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped and spine ends are a mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Book has a slight forward lean. Faint white marks and scratches overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1637569269LSA
- Title
- A Pirate of the Caribbees
- Author
- Harry Collingwood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Griffith Farran Browne & Co
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
World of Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....