The Pirate City: An Algerine Tale
by BALLANTYNE, R. M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
James Nisbet & Co 1874. First edition, octavo, purple cloth boards, gilt lettering & gilt tropical scene to spine, black lettering & black decorative rule to front board, blind rule to rear, grey polished eps, frontispiece, illus half-title page, 400pp+ 16pp book ads, VG (light bruising & fraying to spine extrems, light chaffing to edges & board corners, moderate browning to page edges, 1875 inscription in ink to fep, some tanning & occasional foxing)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 206117
- Title
- The Pirate City: An Algerine Tale
- Author
- BALLANTYNE, R. M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James Nisbet & Co 1874
- Keywords
- modern first edition literature adventure fiction
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...