The Adventures of a Chinaman in China
by Verne, Jules; Champlin, Virginia (trans.)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Item Price
£504.12£403.30
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About This Item
Boston/New York: Lee and Shepard, Publishers; Charles T. Dillingham, 1889. 271 pp. + [8] pp. of ads. 19.5 x 14 cm. Decorative brown cloth with gilt titling to cover and spine. Rubbing to boards and extremites; bumping and light wear to head and tail of spine. Light bumping to corners. Previous owner's name and date in pencil on front pastedown. Faint foxing and soil to endpapers. Faint smudge to dedication page, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. Binding firm. An exceptionally scarce Verne title.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Bennett, Leon.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Munster & Company, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 611668
- Title
- The Adventures of a Chinaman in China
- Author
- Verne, Jules; Champlin, Virginia (trans.)
- Illustrator
- Bennett, Leon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Lee and Shepard, Publishers; Charles T. Dillingham
- Place of Publication
- Boston/New York
- Date Published
- 1889
Terms of Sale
Munster & Company, LLC
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About the Seller
Munster & Company, LLC
Biblio member since 2018
Corvallis, Oregon
About Munster & Company, LLC
Munster & Company is a family owned business with over twenty years of experience in buying and selling books. In October of 2017, we purchased Black Oak Books, originally in Berkeley, California, and moved it all to where we live in Corvallis, Oregon. Our inventory currently features a robust number of titles on mathematics, books about books, literature, poetry, and signed books. New arrivals are listed nearly every day.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....