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The Siege at Peking
by Fleming, Peter
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1959. First Edition. 273 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations and photographic plates. Pages are moderately tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front free end paper. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Noticeable tanning and foxing to text block edges. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a strong forward lean. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces. White marks to overall boards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1661939497GDO
- Title
- The Siege at Peking
- Author
- Fleming, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Date Published
- 1959
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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