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GOLDEN HORN
by Yeats-Brown, F
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Very Good/poor. Octavo, black cloth covers, 287 pages. Black and white illustrations. Cover corners bumped; a little spotting on side edge of book block not affecting text or margins. Minor foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket has a square hole in the spine, chipping at edges, and stain at one edge, poor. Plot and counterplot in Turkey, 1908-1918 as seen "from the inside" by a prisoner of war. By the author of Bengal Lancer. Photo available upon request. 092108E
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000013148
- Title
- GOLDEN HORN
- Author
- Yeats-Brown, F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Turkey, Bagdad, Armenian massacres, Stamboul
Terms of Sale
Alkahest Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Alkahest Books
Biblio member since 2012
Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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