Wells Gardner, Darton & Co LTD, 1908. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1908. Fifth Edition. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated green cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Light scuffing to text-block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and light marking overall. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1627980465LSA
Title: Adventures of a Gunroom Monkey
Author: Arthur Lee Knight
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co LTD
Date Published: 1908

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
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....
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...