Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co. . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Weguelin, J.R. . 12mo. 394 pages. Hardcover bound in green cloth. The binding is significantly worn. There is heavy rubbing and discoloration. Edges are bumped and beginning to fray. Outer edges of the text block are heavily toned. Front gutter is cracked. The title page has several tears. Several subsequent pages are chipped at the edges, not affecting the text. Significant foxing to the end papers. The text is heavily toned but unmarked. Contains five full page illustrations. Publication date circa 1890s.

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Bookseller: Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 051696
Title: The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt.
Author: Henty, G.A
Illustrator: Weguelin, J.R.
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: M.A. Donohue & Co.
Place of Publication: Chicago
Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Weight: 1.10 lbs
Keywords: G. A. Henty; Children Books; Juvenile; Young adult fiction; Action & Adventure; 19th Century Children's Books; Ancient Egypt
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Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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,...
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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...