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Allan Quatermain and She (2 vols H&S Yellow Jackets)
by Haggard, H. Rider
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Two books both Hodder & Stoughton Yellow Jackets. Quatermain is 1931 2/- edition. She is 1949 3/6 edition. Both hardback books are tight clean and square. Boards sharp and clean, title gilt perfect. Text block clean, with light toning to edges, and slightly dusty top edges. The pages are crisp and unblemished. Feel lightly read. Minor bumps to head and foot of spines. Previous booksellers pencil prices to FEP. She has previous owners name to front pastedown. Quatermain is starting at half title page. Very good condition. Jackets are presentable and look very good in the fitted archival covers on the shelf. She has a 25mm closed tear with creasing to top edge of front panel, small rubs to corners, 10mm split to rear joint, and a few very small chips to spine ends. Quatermain has old tape repair to front joint, 6mm split to rear joint, and a few very small chips to spine ends. Jackets grade as very good. These books are fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protectors to make a worthy additions to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the books pictured are the books described. A couple of nice vintage H&S yellow jacket books offered as a pair, perhaps Haggard's best known titles.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Durdles Books (IOBA)
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004029
- Title
- Allan Quatermain and She (2 vols H&S Yellow Jackets)
- Author
- Haggard, H. Rider
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 5th or later Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Weight
- 1.76 lbs
- Keywords
- H&S Yellow Jackets King Solomons Mines General
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Durdles Books (IOBA)
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About the Seller
Durdles Books (IOBA)
Biblio member since 2018
Birmingham, West Midlands
About Durdles Books (IOBA)
Durdles Books is an online bookshop that specialises in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Modern Firsts and Genre Fiction. We also have books in many other categories and think our stock is both varied and interesting. We are constantly busy sourcing new stock in great condition, as collectors ourselves we appreciate that there is nothing like finding a lovely copy of a book that is on "the list". We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), so you can be assured of our commitment to good bookselling practices and customer service.
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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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
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