The Real Siberia, Together With an Account of a Dash Through Manchuria
by FRASER, JOHN FOSTER
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Cassell & Company 1904. Ex-library, octavo, half leather bound maroon textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to title plate with raised bands & rule to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 279pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing/rubbing to spine & extrems, heavy chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor library labelling/marking, moderate cracking to some gutters, moderate but occasional foxing throughout)
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- Title
- The Real Siberia, Together With an Account of a Dash Through Manchuria
- Author
- FRASER, JOHN FOSTER
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company 1904
- Keywords
- travel writing literature history Siberia John Foster Fraser history culture customs
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
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