Contraband: A Tale of Modern Smugglers
by E.R. Spencer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Fair
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cassell, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Fair. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket intact with flaps, but has chunk missing from spine, and other signs of wear. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children; Fiction. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 14261. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14261
- Title
- Contraband: A Tale of Modern Smugglers
- Author
- E.R. Spencer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Children; Fiction. E.R. Spencer Contraband: A Tale of Modern Smugglers
Terms of Sale
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
Glossary
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.