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GREEN MANSIONS, A ROMANCE OF THE TROPICAL FOREST
de HUDSON, W.H
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Almost No Wear/No Jacket
- Librería
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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Sobre este artículo
London: Duckworth and Company, 1926. Bound by SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE of London. Covers with French fillet bordering with corner rosettes. Panelled spine with red leather labels, elaborate gilt designs. Inner dentelles. Spine is sunned to tan, as is quite common with green leathers. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Small pleasant book-plate on front pastedown. This English edition of the Hudson novel is illustrated by Keith Henderson. There are ten double-page images, two single-page, and 22 chapter heads. First edition was published in 1904. 325pp. William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was an English author, naturalist, and ornithologist. This novel is an exotic romance about a traveller to the Guyana jungle in SE Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima. A fine early twentieth century novel in an equally fine binding!. Illustrated Edition. Full Emerald Smooth Morocco. Almost No Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 014175
- Título
- GREEN MANSIONS, A ROMANCE OF THE TROPICAL FOREST
- Autor
- HUDSON, W.H
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Almost No Wear
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- Illustrated Edition
- Editorial
- Duckworth and Company
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1926
- Tamaño
- Octavo
- Palabras clave
- Fine Binding, Sangorski and Sutcliffe, Novels
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Glenn Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
Sobre Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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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....
- Sunned
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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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...
- Morocco
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- Jacket
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