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The Coral Island
by R M Ballantyne
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Boy's Own Paper Office, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Stated. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. With illustrated frontispiece. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Previous owner's stamp to front pastedown. Chalk mark to rear pastedown. Text block edges heavily foxed. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Slight split to rear joint. Heavy bump and crease to lower front corner. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Book has a heavy forward lean. Spine is slightly sunned.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1629906260DPB
- Title
- The Coral Island
- Author
- R M Ballantyne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Boy's Own Paper Office
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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