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Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
by Jules Verne
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 244 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth board. Gilt lettering. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Bookseller sticker stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.
Synopsis
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1661260933LSA
- Title
- Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
- Author
- Jules Verne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
World of Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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Glossary
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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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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