Alpine Byways or Light Leaves Gathered in 1859 and 1860 by a Lady
by Mrs. Henry Freshfield (a Lady)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7.75 - 9.75" tall. x + 232pp. Hinges cracked. Main text block remains firmly bound. Rear joint split with spine coming away from back cover. Front joint beginning to split. 4.5cm loss at base of spine, slight loss at head. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Malta Garrison Library book-plate to front pastedown. Mudie's Library book-plate to front board. Edges browned. Covers marked. Corners bumped. Blind stamped cloth. Contains frontispiece, 7 illustrations and 4 maps. All are present but one illustration is torn. Some tissue guards are absent. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; 19th century; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 20810. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20810
- Title
- Alpine Byways or Light Leaves Gathered in 1859 and 1860 by a Lady
- Author
- Mrs. Henry Freshfield (a Lady)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1861
- Keywords
- BZDB243 sports, leisure, travel, bio, history, C19th, Europe Mountaineering; 19th century; Biography & Autobiography. Mrs. Henry Freshfield (a Lady) Alpine Byways or Light Leaves Gathered in 1859 and 1860 by a Lady
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography; Mountaineering;
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About the Seller
Dreadnought Books
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Bristol
About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
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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
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....