Sailing Through China
by Theroux, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395348366
- ISBN 13
- 9780395348369
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0395348366 . Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, tan endpapers. Illustrated in B&W by Patrick Proctor. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean, aside from one small stain on the ffep. The price-clipped dust jacket is moderately worn, with one closed tear on the front panel. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. . B&W Illustrations. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 64 pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10117
- Title
- Sailing Through China
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Illustrator
- Patrick Procktor
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395348366
- ISBN 13
- 9780395348369
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- 0395348366, Yangtze River Valley, CHINA, Travel and adventure, Illustrated Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Adventure;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.