Jack the Giant Killer
by Doyle, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. Fair with no dust jacket. [1888]. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards very rubbed and worn. Green cloth tape repair over spine. 1" loss of cloth at corners of boards. Endpapers replaced. Pages well read with fingermarks, smudge stains and light creasing throughout the volume.; No date [1888]. 48 pages. Colour chromolithograph illustrations throughout. Green cloth boards bevelled edges. Red lettering and illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 246 x 200mm.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6765
- Title
- Jack the Giant Killer
- Author
- Doyle, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Eyre and Spottiswoode
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1888]
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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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....
- Edges
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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