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The Dust of Combat: A Life of Charles Kingsley - SIGNED copy in dust jacket
de MARTIN, Robert Bernard [INSCRIBED]
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+/Good+
- Librería
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo. Pp. 308. Frontis. subject portrait. Illustrated with 7 additional halftone plates, index. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, coat of arms in gilt on the cover. Inscribed in ink on the title page "With all good wishes to Ray, RBM." Binding tight, boards square, leaves crisp and bright. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket with price $5.95 intact on the front flap: edges chipped, light abrasions. Kingsley 1819 - 1875 was a parish priest, Chaplain to the Queen, tutor to the Prince of Wales, professor of History at Cambridge, novelist, Christian Socialist, pamphleteer, etc. Today he's perhaps best known for Westward Ho! and the perennial seller, Water Babies. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
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- Librería
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 6406
- Título
- The Dust of Combat: A Life of Charles Kingsley - SIGNED copy in dust jacket
- Autor
- MARTIN, Robert Bernard [INSCRIBED]
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- W. W. Norton & Co
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1960
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Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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Seattle, Washington
Sobre Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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- Jacket
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- Tight
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
