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The Golden Kingdom: Being an Account of the Quest for the Same as Described in the Narrative of Doctor Henry Mortimer, Contained in the Manuscript Found Within the Boards of a Boer Bible During the Late War, and Edited With a Prefatory Note
by Balfour, Andrew
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor
- Seller
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North Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Reddish cloth with gold gilt spine lettering and with the front stamped in blind, 480 pages, frontispiece. Adventure novel set in Africa and involving lost race elements. Listed in the original 1948 Bleiler Checklist but not in the 1978 revised edition Checklist. Not in Locke, Reginald or Tuck. Poor with spine cocked and toned with fraying to the ends, corners lightly bumped with wear to the tips, interior binding badly cracked, owner's stamp and scattered soiling the endpapers. bx107
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- Bookseller
- biblioboy
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71406
- Title
- The Golden Kingdom
- Author
- Balfour, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- T. Nelson & Sons Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London and Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1903
- Pages
- 480
- Size
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LOST, RACE, ADVENTURE, FICTION, AFRICA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Fantasy / Adventure; Fiction / Lost Race;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
biblioboy
Biblio member since 2003
North Providence, Rhode Island
About biblioboy
We are biblioboybiblioboy dealers in Books, Stamps, Ephemera, Victorian Trade cards, Magazines, Postcards, Sheet Music, Engravings, and much more. I started out as a book collector and soon progressed to owning a book store with over 80,000 books and more than 10,000 pieces of ephemera, postcards, and other items. I exhibited my stock for years at book and paper shows around the eastern United States. As the book and paper business has changed over the years, I have changed the way I do business to evolve with the times. I now offer my items for sale on the web only, through my various listing services and web sites. Being a a collector, as well as a dealer, I understand the importance of condition, as well as rarity of an item, and the desire to own scarce and one of a kind items.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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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