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Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. VG -. Hardcover / No jacket / Not dated / Red boards detailed in red & black / New & cheaper edition / Small presentation stamp within / Front hinge cracked but binding solid / may be missing a plate

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 298 pages. No dust jacket. Brown illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 298 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth. Contains colour plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Boards are slightly bowed.

NELSON, UNDATED. Hardback. VGC/No Dust Jacket. SKINNER. THE KINGSTON LIBRARY, PICTURE BOARDS (BOY ON HORSE) GREEN BINDING, GOLD TEXT, SHIP ON THE SPINE,

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888. William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880) was a prolific author who devoted the last thirty years of his life to adventurous "Boys Books." He is noted as a translator of Jules Verne (although his wife actually did the work). This is a Very Good copy of a Later Printing ("New and Cheaper Edition"] in an evocative binding. Light gray clothstamped with an image of a boy riding (bareback) what appears to be a buffalo. Filled with black and gilt; titling and decorations on the spine as well. Clean text; 298 pages, followed by a 32-page publisher's catalog in the rear. There is no publication date, but per the TCD listing in Copac, Quercus assigns it to circa 1888. Bumped corners, rubbed at the margins, page-ends a bit dusty. Despite these signs of usage, the book presents very well, due to the sharpness of the stamping and its rather "over-the-top" imagery.. Later Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.… Leer más