"Honour Come Back-"
by Jacob, Naomi
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co. Good in Good+ dust jacket. [c.1936?]. Hardcover. No signatures. Some marking to boards. Spotting to page edges. Rubbing to ends of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. 3/8" x 1/4" chip at tail of rear fold of dust wrapper. 1 1/2" tear at tail of front fold of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 351 pages + advertisements. Black cloth boards with orange writing. Page dimensions: 184mm x 115mm. "Colonel Walter Benham walked briskly through the park lands which ended in the low stone wall of his own gardens. He found a never ceasing pleasure in moving over the springy turf, standing now and then to stare up at the huge oaks and elms, and reflecting that in no other country could such magnificent trees be found." - the opening sentences. "15th thousand," on dust wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10268
- Title
- "Honour Come Back-"
- Author
- Jacob, Naomi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [c.1936?]
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....