The Jungle Book. With Illustrations by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. SECOND REPRINT OF FIRST EDITION.
de KIPLING, Rudyard
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Macmillan and Co. London. 1894. Macmillan & Co. June, 1894. The first reprint of the first edition of May, 1984. Original illustrated blue cloth gilt, worn and rubbed to extremities, slight lean to spine and slight scuff marks to lower board. Gorgeous gilt elephants to upper board. All page edges gilt. Inner front hinge cracked but holding, contents slightly shaken, a few different ownership names and inscriptions, a couple to first page of prelims and a later name and address to reverse of half-title. Pages browned, foxed and occasionally thumbed to margins. generally a good copy.
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- Addyman Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 99430
- Título
- The Jungle Book. With Illustrations by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. SECOND REPRINT OF FIRST EDITION.
- Autor
- KIPLING, Rudyard
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- Fecha de publicación
- Macmillan and Co. London. 1894
- Palabras clave
- CHILDREN'S jungle book kipling
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire
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Addyman Books is based in Hay-on-Wye, the book capital of the world, with almost 30 bookshops in the town, nestled in the Black Mountains of Wales. We have been established since 1986 and have three shops, Addyman Books, Addyman Annexe and Murder & Mayhem. Large general stock. Murder & Mayhem specialises in Detective Fiction, True Crime and Horror.
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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...
- Cracked
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
