Garrett & Co, 1854. Hardcover. Acceptable. Brown cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration to spine and elaborate decoration in blind with anchor at center to front and back panels. Cloth rubbed with some loss to gilt at spine, decorative flourishes obscured at front and back. Soiling, edge wear, fraying to spine foot and bottom fore edge corners. Binding cracked to the bottom 2in. at p. 96 & 97 with the bottom thread split; the other threads are still sturdy. Missing ffep. With illustrated half title and five additional plates. Damp staining to top margin off and on through first half of the book. Early bookseller's sticker at front pastedown, partially removed. Scarring from sticker removal at flyleaf. Prior owner's name scribbled to rear free end paper with purple colored pencil. Small numerical notation penned to recto of rfep. Lightly foxed and toned throughout, text else unmarked.

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Bookseller: The Book Bin (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: CORV-BBP-005233
Title: Na Motu; or, Reef-Rovings in the South Seas
Author: Perkins, Edward T
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Garrett & Co
Date Published: 1854
Weight: 0.00 lbs

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The Book Bin is a locally owned and operated business that has been in the same family since 1983. We are an ABA- and ABAA-affiliated general-interest bookstore with two stores in Salem and Corvallis, Oregon. We have over 30,000 items listed for sale online, and a dedicated rare book room in our Salem location. Books in our rare book room cover a wide range of subjects, with a focus on science fiction, fantasy and horror, literature and poetry, metaphysics, and children's books.

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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...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Recto: The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
Half Title: The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
RFEP: The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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,...
Fore Edge: The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...