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Conqueror of the Seas: The story of Magellan
by Stefan Zweig
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Literary Guild Of America, 1938. Hardcover. Good. 1938. No Edition Stated. 335 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to half title page, with name to rear endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting to spine ends. Notable sunning to spine and board edges, with scuffing and marking to boards. Book has a forward lean.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1695107081ALK
- Title
- Conqueror of the Seas: The story of Magellan
- Author
- Stefan Zweig
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Literary Guild Of America
- Date Published
- 1938
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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