A Cockney in Kilts; or, The Highlands up to Date
by Rae-Brown, Campbell
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Glasgow: Morison Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. 1892. First Edition. Softcover. Covers rubbed and foxed. Small chip to lower corner of front cover. 1/2" chip at tail of spine.; 181, [3 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 175 x 125mm. Printed wrappers. Illustration on front cover, advertisements for other Morison Brothers' publications on rear cover. A humorous novel. Some small cartoon-like in-text illustrations. "'Chimley, indeed,' answered Jonathan, and it will be remarked here, as hereafter, how much at variance were this excellent pair in their pronunciation of the English language." - page 31. "But as fur as I kan make out thro' makin' inquiries, I'm in a place as they call Edinburry - which is a sort of suburb of Skotland - Skotland bein' the capital of the 'Ighlands." - page 79. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20960
- Title
- A Cockney in Kilts; or, The Highlands up to Date
- Author
- Rae-Brown, Campbell
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Morison Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1892
Terms of Sale
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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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- 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...
- Wrappers
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- Jacket
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.