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Soldiers Three: A Collection of Stories Setting Forth Certain Passages in the Lives and Adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris, and John Learoyd
by KIPLING, Rudyard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: A. L. Burt, Publisher. Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. An undated reprint edition containing 8 of Mr. Kipling's stories featuring his Army private characters. Includes "The Solid Muldoon" and "Black Jack". Possibly published in the early 1900s. --- In full dark green cloth-covered boards w/gilt-stamped spine titling. Top edge gilt. Lacks a dust jacket. --- Interior somewhat browned, and with loose back cover. Prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down, bumps to corners and chafing to cloth edges. ; Small 8vo 7-1/2" - 8" tall; 366, 12 (ads) pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78702
- Title
- Soldiers Three: A Collection of Stories Setting Forth Certain Passages in the Lives and Adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris, and John Learoyd
- Author
- KIPLING, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- A. L. Burt, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
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Littleton, Colorado
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Glossary
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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