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Constantinople
by VAN MILLINGEN, Alexander; Warwick Goble (illus)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: A&C Black, 1906. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (23cm). Publisher's pictorial cloth, with gilt spine titles; x,281,[8]pp; frontispiece and 62 unnumbered leaves of color plates, after original paintings by Warwick Goble. A tight, straight copy, complete with all 63 plates and the folding map; very lightly rubbed at spine ends with tiny abrasion at foot of front joint, still Very Good or better but lacking the very scarce dustwrapper.
In Black's lavishly-produced "20 shilling" Series, this volume especially desirable for the atmospheric illustrations by Warwick Goble, best-known as an illustrator of childrens' books.
In Black's lavishly-produced "20 shilling" Series, this volume especially desirable for the atmospheric illustrations by Warwick Goble, best-known as an illustrator of childrens' books.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80870
- Title
- Constantinople
- Author
- VAN MILLINGEN, Alexander; Warwick Goble (illus)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- A&C Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrators;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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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...
- Spine
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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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