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Backsheesh! or Life and Adventures in the Orient: With Descriptive and Humorous Sketches of Sights and Scenes over the Atlantic, Down the Danube, ... in Nubia, and Equatorial Africa, etc., etc
by Thomas Wallace Knox
- Used
- good
- hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Oak Park, Illinois
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£24.47
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About This Item
Original brown cloth cover with gilt ornamentation; 694 pages. Binding is loosened, stain on corner of a few pages, spine ends worn.
JWSC LLC is listing this property on behalf of a private collector's estate. Documentation on file indicates this book was purchased by the estate in the 1970s. Additional photos available.
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Details
- book dealer
- JWSC LLC
(US)
- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- RG.01
- Title
- Backsheesh! or Life and Adventures in the Orient: With Descriptive and Humorous Sketches of Sights and Scenes over the Atlantic, Down the Danube, ... in Nubia, and Equatorial Africa, etc., etc
- Author
- Thomas Wallace Knox
- Book condition
- second hand - Good
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A.D. Worthington
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Cincinatti, and St. Louis
- Date Published
- 1875
Terms of Sale
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JWSC LLC
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Oak Park, Illinois
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- 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... [more]
- spine
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- Cloth
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