The Last Voyage
by Annie Brassey (Lady)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bound with maroon leather over the spine and corners with gilt title on green leather title plate on the spine and further gilt decorations, contrasting maroon leather covered boards.The spine and corner leather is quite severely rubbed, but the book remains robust and square. Gilt upper closed page edge, hinge and text block firm, marbled end papers, no inscriptions. On the title page is written "Annie Brassey 1887", this looks very much like an authentic signature?. Frontispiece opposisite of Sunbeam, tissue guarded. Fold out map in very good condition, no tears, but creased/folded in the wrong places. Abundantly and beautifully illustrated throughout. One or two spots to the end papers thereafter pages smooth, clean and bright. A very well preserved book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- David's Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036424
- Title
- The Last Voyage
- Author
- Annie Brassey (Lady)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
David's Bookshop
Biblio member since 2022
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
About David's Bookshop
Open since 1963, David's Bookshop & Music Shop are located in two linked shops in Eastcheap, Letchworth Garden City, only a few minutes walk from Morrisons supermarket, the railway station and Letchworth Shopping Centre. There is ample parking nearby. As the world's first Garden City, Letchworth has much to offer visitors. We stock books and guides about Letchworth's past and present. At the Bookshop you will find a comprehensive range of fiction, non-fiction, text books, maps and best-sellers in stock. Travellers, walkers, computer users and local historians are especially well catered for. We can supply any book in print and there are always many titles on special offer. The book collector - or second-hand browser - can check out a growing selection of our 15,000 second-hand and antiquarian books available for purchase through the internet. If you have good quality books to sell - bring them in for a quick appraisal and a fair offer. You can rely upon our staff's advice who really know about books. Contact us online at www.davids-bookshops.co.uk.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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