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"Taken In;" Being, A Sketch Of New Zealand Life
by Hopeful
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: W. H. Allen & Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Rear hinge broken with spine mull visible at gutter. Upper 16mm strip removed from title leaf, without loss of text. Some marginalia. Provenance: Carl R. Staubel, with pencil owner's name "C R Straubel". [Reference: Taylor, "Roll of Book Collectors in New Zealand" p. 33 : "Particular emphasis is placed upon Canterbury material".] ; xii, 208 pages. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 168 x 107mm. [Reference: Bagnall 2662 : "The writer is certainly critical both of New Zealand and propaganda about it and although there are comparisons between Auckland and Wellington, for example, most of the local colour is of Christchurch [. . .] from internal evidence the author appears to have arribed in Christchurch on the Merope in August 1885 and may have been one of the Misses Campbell in the passenger list"]. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24411
- Title
- "Taken In;" Being, A Sketch Of New Zealand Life
- Author
- Hopeful
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- W. H. Allen & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- New Zealand
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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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