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SWALLOW
by H RIDER HAGGARD
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO , 1899 Navy Blue cloth on Bevel edged boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and front, 190 x 135 mm approx. Publisher's bible black end paper, x + 348 pp. Frontis + 6 other b/w illustrations NB Lacks one plate. First Edition 1899. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Fair (Book shelf wear and soiling to cloth incl. a 3 cm approx split to gutter of front board with attendant fraying at head. Dust ingression spots to top margin with varying accompanying foxing spots to margins and occasionally whole leaves, a few corners turned form a reading. No previous owner name or insc. Cracks to end papers mull and sewing holding.Offered and priced as a reading copy of the first edition).
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133264
- Title
- SWALLOW
- Author
- H RIDER HAGGARD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- Swallow, H Rider Haggard, First Edition, The Great Trek, Boers, Kaffirs, Voortrekkers,
Terms of Sale
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- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- First Edition
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- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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