KALOOLAH, OR, JOURNEYINGS TO THE DJEBEL KUMRI: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHNATHAN ROMER
by Mayo, W. S
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London:George Routledge & Co., 1850. hard cover. Good/No jacket. London:Geroge Routledge & Co. 1850. viii+296pp. Quarter lether with marbled boards. Hardcover. Leather boards with gilt decorations to spine lightly soiled and shelfworn with chips to spine ends, with wear along hinges. Marbled boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with wear along edeges to boards in places. Internally, marbled end-pages lightly soiled, with a large bookplate to inside front board and some lightly penciled notes to second free end-pages, otherwise, aside from an occasional smudge scattered throughout, a very good clean copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact, but cracked at contents page. A good solid copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26883
- Title
- KALOOLAH, OR, JOURNEYINGS TO THE DJEBEL KUMRI: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHNATHAN ROMER
- Author
- Mayo, W. S
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London:George Routledge & Co.
- Date Published
- 1850
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; FICTION; WILLIAM STARBUCK MAYO; MARITIME FICTION;
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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