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Tales of East and West
by Rudyard Kipling
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Limited Editions Club, Connecticut, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. RUDYARD KIPLING. Tales of East and West, Connecticut: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Quarto, copy No. 102 of 2,000, pp. xiii, 375, 1 (limitation page), green and blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decorations to spine and front, slipcased, illustrated by Charles Raymond, signed by Raymond on the limitation page. Kipling adventures selected by Bernard Bergonzi. Condition of this book: Very good with minor smoky discoloration to edges and endpages (this book survived a fire), no smoke odor. Slipcase and spine also darkened. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; 19th century; Children. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53803. .
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- Rarities etc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53803
- Title
- Tales of East and West
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; 19th century; Children. Rudyard Kipling Tales of East and West
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2007
Warwick, New York
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- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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...
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