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Westward Ho! Or The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, or Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth
by Kingsley, Charles. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock
- Used
- good
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1896. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Good. 12mo. 18.5 by 12.5 cm. xi, 591 pp. Full green calf with some sunning, some stains, rubbing, dryness on spine, and generally worn. Leaves are age toned but generally clean.
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- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006377
- Title
- Westward Ho! Or The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, or Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock
- Format/Binding
- Full Calf
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1896
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
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