Botany Bay
by Charles Nordhoff; James Norman Hall
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Rochester, New York, United States
Item Price
NZ$67.29NZ$53.83
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: The Sun Dial Press, 1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Not Stated. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Edition not stated. No indication of later printings in this edition, 1944. c 1941. Blue boards with embossed design of ship; gilt titles on spine. Boards clean with minor shelf wear, corners gently bumped. Spine lettering a bit rubbed; ends bumped. Binding sound. Text block toned with light foxing. Old bookseller sticker at gutter of front paste down, else unmarked. DJ not clipped (100100) age darkened with edges rubbed, some chipping to edges. Spine head and heel chipped with minor loss. Front panel illustration whole and attractive. 'Buy War Bonds' advertisement on rear panel..
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- Bookseller
- Small World Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 071768
- Title
- Botany Bay
- Author
- Charles Nordhoff; James Norman Hall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Not Stated
- Publisher
- The Sun Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- VINTAGE FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Literature;
Terms of Sale
Small World Books, LLC
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Small World Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2011
Rochester, New York
About Small World Books, LLC
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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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
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