A Girdle Round the Earth: Home Letters from Foreign Lands
by RICHARDSON, D. N
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1890. Hardcover. A later, 1890 printing of the author's 1888 account of round-the-world travels. In full olive cloth-covered boards w/titling in gilt on spine. --- Cover corners are bumped and a child has been careless with a pencil on the title page, otherwise a firm, clean copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xi, 449 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78235
- Title
- A Girdle Round the Earth: Home Letters from Foreign Lands
- Author
- RICHARDSON, D. N
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- A.C. McClurg and Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1890
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- 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....
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...