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by JACOBS, W.W. (1863-1943), [OWEN, Will, illustrator]
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.269 [3]. With 10 black and white plates illustrated by Owen, including a frontispiece, as well several further vignette engravings. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine, and black titles and decoration to upper. A little light spotting to first and final few leaves. Spotting and toning to all edges. Light wear to cloth with a little bumping to corners. Very good.
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- Bookseller
- Adrian Harrington Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62138
- Title
- Captains All
- Author
- JACOBS, W.W. (1863-1943), [OWEN, Will, illustrator]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1905
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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About the Seller
Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
About Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books, and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.Award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.We are always interested in buying quality books in our subject areas, from individual titles to complete collections.
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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....
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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