Through Oriental Gates: The Adventures of an Unwise Man in the East
by Childers, James Saxon
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 333 pages. Hardcover bound in red cloth with gold lettering. There is moderate wear to the binding. The spine and text block are slanted forward. The edges are bumped and beginning to fray. Outer edges of the text block are toned and lightly foxed. Foxing to the endpapers. Some foxing throughout the text. Text is toned but clean and sound. Illustrated.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050317
- Title
- Through Oriental Gates: The Adventures of an Unwise Man in the East
- Author
- Childers, James Saxon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1930; James Saxon Childers; Travel Writings; Asia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Asia;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...