Boy's Handy Book of Natural History, The
by Dulcken, H. W. (edited by)
- Used
- Condition
- Fair+
- Seller
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Hexham, Northumberland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Ward, Lock and Co.; London., 1111. Undated. c.1880. . Hard. Fair+. 12mo. 7 1/2".. Fully illustrated with b/w plates.. Fair+. Publishers blue cloth with gilt and black block. Covers worn. Hinges cracked. Presentation inscription neatly penned to free front endpaper. Endpapers and leaves to extremities marked by grubby fingers. Light foxing to far extremities. A shaken, well used copy. 384pp.
Synopsis
The Island of Sheep (1936) is a novel by John Buchan. It is part of the series featuring Richard Hannay and Sandy Arbuthnot.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ryan OHorne Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021842
- Title
- Boy's Handy Book of Natural History, The
- Author
- Dulcken, H. W. (edited by)
- Illustrator
- Fully illustrated with b/w plates.
- Format/Binding
- Hard
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Undated. c.1880.
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock and Co.; London.
- Size
- 12mo. 7 1/2".
- Bookseller catalogs
- Outdoors & Nature;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair+
- Used to describe a book in slightly better than Fair condition. Fair describes "a worn book that has complete text pages...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...