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Allan's Wife (Hodder and Staughton Sevenpenny Library)
by H. Rider Haggard
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hodder and Staughton, 1914. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1914. No Edition Remarks. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis. Heavy tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Major tanning to text block edges and binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and moderate rubbing to spine.
Synopsis
It was your native name which I borrowed at the christening of that Allen who has become as well known to me as any other friend I have. It is therefore fitting that I should dedicate to you this, his last tale the story of his wife, and the history of some further adventures which befell him. They will remind you of many an African yarn that with the baboons may recall an experience of your own which I did not share.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1638275581ADA
- Title
- Allan's Wife (Hodder and Staughton Sevenpenny Library)
- Author
- H. Rider Haggard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder and Staughton
- Date Published
- 1914
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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