Ceylon Pearl of The East
by WILLIAMS, HARRY
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, New Zealand
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About This Item
Robert Hale n.d.. Imperial octavo, red heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, eps - map, frontispiece, 460pp. illus - plates, VG (light chipping to spine extrems, light dampstaining to boards, moderate foxing to page edges) in illus d/w Tatty (moderate tanning to inside, 3cm tear without loss to lower edge, light moderate chipping and creasing, 16cm tear with a small amount of loss, 1cm tear with loss)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 279726
- Title
- Ceylon Pearl of The East
- Author
- WILLIAMS, HARRY
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Robert Hale n.d.
- Keywords
- Sri Lanka history colonial
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...