Amazing Adventures
by Gould, S. Baring
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Poor with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signatures. Front board detached. Text block almost detached into sections. Spine missing.Some staining and marking to boards. Two large words written on rear board. ; (54) pages. Illustrated card boards. Full-page colour illustrations. Page dimensions: 225mm x 330mm. Each text page with facing colour illustration. "There were Jack and Sambo and little San Toy,/ A Mate, a cook, and a cabin boy,/ Red or black they were, or yellow,/ In colour unlike, yet each a good fellow,/ Although so varied in form and hue,/ In everything else, good men and true." - the introductory poem. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8289
- Title
- Amazing Adventures
- Author
- Gould, S. Baring
- Illustrator
- Neilson, Harry B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...