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The Empire: A Complete History from Roman Times to the Present Day
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, Edinburgh and New York: Thomas Nelson, 1891. Later printing. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 560 pp. including index. Profusely illustrated. Moderate shelfwear. The cloth is torn most of the way along the front joint. Previous owner's bookplate and name are on the front pastedown. The endpapers are foxed. In a sound binding with hinges intact.. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Banjo Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010529
- Title
- The Empire: A Complete History from Roman Times to the Present Day
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson
- Place of Publication
- London, Edinburgh and New York
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- British Empire History
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Banjo Booksellers
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About the Seller
Banjo Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Andover, Massachusetts
About Banjo Booksellers
On-line and mail-order only. We have a wide variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on modern first editions and collectible childrens books.
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
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