Travels in Hope: A Book of Wayfaring Essays
by MILNE, JAMES & MAXWELL, DONALD (Illus)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Hodder and Stoughton (nd). Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration to front board & spine, frontispiece, 191pp, illus, VG (some bruising to spine extrems, light tanning to eps & page edges, light foxing to eps & page edges) in d/w, VG- (some tanning & soiling, chipping & light creasing to edges)
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- Title
- Travels in Hope: A Book of Wayfaring Essays
- Author
- MILNE, JAMES & MAXWELL, DONALD (Illus)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton (nd)
- Keywords
- James Milne Donald Maxwell travel memoirs essays art painting illustration
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- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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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....
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