THE WAR IN THE AIR
by Wells, H.G
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Bell and Sons. Bound in red cloth with coloured paste-down illustration of destroyer and airships to front board,with clear black titles to front board and bright gilt titles to spine, this dated 1908 First Edition, Second State is VG. (First state had blue cloth binding and no paste-down illustration). V11/389pp+2pp Publishers' Adverts. With 11 Chapters and 16 full-page B/W illustrations by A.C. Michael. Clean endpapers but slight edge damage to pages 349, 350, 351 and 352. The two leaves were uncut , and when roughly separated, some of the paper from one leaf stuck to the other. Affecting only a maximum of half an inch on fore-edge of either leaf, with no text loss. (These two leaves were clearly uncut and roughly opened) One or two scattered foxing spots throughout, otherwise sound, tight binding: a good looking volume and VG . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1908.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camillas Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00212459
- Title
- THE WAR IN THE AIR
- Author
- Wells, H.G
- Illustrator
- Michael, A.C.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George Bell and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- H.Wells: "The War in the Air" (1908)
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
Terms of Sale
Camillas Bookshop
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About the Seller
Camillas Bookshop
Biblio member since 2009
Eastbourne, East Sussex
About Camillas Bookshop
Camilla's Bookshop is a large secondhand and antiquarian bookstore situated in the resort town of Eastbourne.We have more than 500,000 books in all categories. Our specialities include: armed forces, transport, travel, politics, history, literature (several thousand novels including modern firsts), religion, esoteric & occult and art.Shop hours are 10:00 - 17:00, excepting Sundays and Bank Holidays.Unfortunately, we do not ship to Denmark.
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- Leaves
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- 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...
- 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...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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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