Summer Cruising in the South Seas : South-Sea Idyls
by Stoddard, Charles Warren (1843-1909)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus, 1905. Originally published 1874. Stoddard visited the South Sea Islands first in 1864 and from there wrote his Idyls - letters to a friend, later making 3 further visits and writing 4 more books on the area including this one. His writing style is one of charmed delight, and very endearing. Later he accepted the chair of English literature in the University of Notre Dame. CONDITION Green cloth bds with bright Gilt title and decorative front (bds have very sl speckling else unworn) pp x 319 copy is bright and clean with gutter crack to paper at front ep exposing mull which is tight and intact. A very nice copy.. Re-Issue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariel Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11487
- Title
- Summer Cruising in the South Seas : South-Sea Idyls
- Author
- Stoddard, Charles Warren (1843-1909)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Re-Issue
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1905
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Hawaii Tahiti Pacific
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ships & the Sea;
Terms of Sale
Ariel Books
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About the Seller
Ariel Books
Biblio member since 2003
Auckland
About Ariel Books
We are a small friendly book store stocking a unique selection of rare and out of print books. Currently we are searching for a suitable new location but have had an open book shop since 1998.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- BDS
- Common term for the covers of a hardbound book. The term 'boards' refers to the thick cardboard under the paper or cloth...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- 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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