London: The Religious Tract Society. Good+ with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Award plate pasted to reverse of frontis. Postage stamp pasted to front free endpaper. Small red sticker on front free endpaper. Rubbing to ends of spine. 1/4" tear at tail of spine. 1/2" tear at head of rear spine joint. Some marking to boards. Foxing to title page and first few leaves. Knocking along head of rear board. ; 388 pages + advertisements. No date (appendix dated 1907). Green cloth boards with black and white illustration. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 186mm x 120mm. "This book aims at representing to the Western reader whatever is most noteworthy and interesting in the home life, manners and customs, occupations and surroundings, modes of thought, superstitions and religious beliefs and practices of the Mongol tribes who inhabit the eastern portion of the plateau of Central Asia lying between Siberia on the north and China on the south." - from the preface. ; 8vo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 7674
Title: Among The Mongols
Author: Gilmour, James
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
Publisher: The Religious Tract Society
Place of Publication: London

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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....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Tail: The heel of the spine.
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...