THE CORAL ISLAND.
by Ballantyne, R.M
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Collins Clear-Type Press 444 pp, 16mo (6 1/8" H), thin burgundy leather over card covers/spine - gold lettering and decoration on spine, top edge gilt - in slipcase. Burgundy endpapers, sepiatone illustrations, including frontispiece, decorated title page, integral ribbon bookmark. After a shipwreck, three boys are marooned on an island in the South Pacific. They experience a 'Robinson Crusoe'-like existence - forging shelter and the necessities of life from a few salvaged items and the natural resources surrounding them, encountering native Polynesians, British pirates and Christian missionaries before returning home. Light toning to pages, tiny corner crease aon last two pages, light browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block, minor edge wear. Slipcase has light edge wear, some very light colour fading at some edges, some stains to top panel, top side joint has been repaired.. Full-Leather. Very Good. Illus. by J.E. Sutcliffe..
Synopsis
The Coral Island is a novel written by Scottish juvenile fiction author R.M. Ballantyne. It was voted as one of the top twenty Scottish novels in the 2006 15th International World Wide Web Conference.
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30212
- Title
- THE CORAL ISLAND.
- Author
- Ballantyne, R.M
- Illustrator
- J.E. Sutcliffe.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Collins Clear-Type Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Juvenile Fiction, R.M. Ballantyne, scottish Authors, 19th Century, Shipwrecks, Marooned, South Pacific, Boys, Adventure, Christianity, British Imperialism, Leadership, Hierarchy, Morality, Lord of Flies, Robinson Crusoe, Ralph Rover, Polynesia, Polynesian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens; Literature; Collins' Clear-Type (Cleartype);
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Capricorn Books
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About the Seller
Capricorn Books
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Oakville, Ontario
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
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- 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...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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