A Floating City
by VERNE, JULES
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Samson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1874. Hardback. Good. Brown cloth boards decorated and embossed with design of prow of ship in black and gold to front, small design of sailor at ship's wheel to spine. 286pp. Presumed first English edition. Small bookbinder's label 'Burn & Co' to rear endpaper. All edges gilt. Externally bumped and frayed at corners and ends of spine, with small splts in spine covering in places, now secured. 1st endpapers have scuffed surface in places, partly caused by a previous attempt to glue the hinge, also causing slight ; first and last hinges cracked, revealing webbing. Rear endpapers have a few glass ring marks; scattered foxing to last few non-text pages. A little faint scattered foxing to random pages throughout but fewer are affected than not. Some movement but text-block tight. Fair to good- overall, priced accordingly.
Synopsis
A Floating City is an adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne first published in 1871. It tells of a woman who, on board the ship Great Eastern with her husband, finds that the man she loves is also on board.
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- Bookseller
- Ripping Yarns
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60489
- Title
- A Floating City
- Author
- VERNE, JULES
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Samson Low, Marston, Low & Searle
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1874
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- 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,...
- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
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