Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Bright orange illustrated boards with black lettering. Shelf wear. Spine worn at top and bottom but binding remains strong and tight. No writing, stickers, stamps or book plate. Text block is toned at edges. First edition. 47 black & white photographs throughout. Not ex-library. Dust jacket in protective mylar to prevent further damage - front fore edge is partially rubbed away and there are open tears at spine top and bottom. General soiling. ; Black & white photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages .

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Bookseller: Old Editions Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 8532
Title: The Wonder of War in the Holy Land
Author: Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1919

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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....
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....
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Fore Edge: The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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...
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...