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The Criminal
by Ellis, Havelock
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Walter Scott. Good with no dust jacket. 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Hinges broken. Some fraying to cloth at ends of spine and edges of boards. Quite extensive underlining and marginalia, mostly in pencil. Previous owner's name in ink on front board and a couple of other pages. Also later owner's blindstamp on title page (Hardwicke Knight). ; viii, 337, [1] pages + portrait frontispiece + 15 plates + [6] pages advertisements. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 186 x 119mm. "This little book is an attempt to present to the English reader a critical summary of the results of the science now commonly called criminal anthropology" - from the Preface. [Seller ref: Knightcol] ; The Contemporary Science Series; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15593
- Title
- The Criminal
- Author
- Ellis, Havelock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Walter Scott
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- History
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.
Glossary
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Blindstamp
- A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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