Swallow - A Tale of the Great Trek.
by HAGGARD, H. Rider
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longmans, Green, & Co, London., 1899. First edition. Octavo. pp x, 348. Eight black and white plates. Original blue buckram covers gilt, bevelled edges.Small ownership signature on verso of front free endpaper. Trace of an erasure to front free endpaper. Sporadic foxing, most heavily on the last few leaves. Very good indeed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HAGGARDH001228
- Title
- Swallow - A Tale of the Great Trek.
- Author
- HAGGARD, H. Rider
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, & Co, London.
- Date Published
- 1899
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Ellis bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
LONDON
About Peter Ellis bookseller
A shop in one of the last remaining bookselling enclaves of London, with a carefully selected stock of modern first editions, art and illustrated books, travel literature and other subjects. Known for books in fine condition.
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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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...