THE DASH FOR KHARTOUM : a Tale of the Nile Expedition. With Ten Page Illustrations By Joseph Nash and John Schonburg
by Henty, G. A
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
50 Old Bailey, E C, London: Blackie & Son Limited. Full-Leather. Good+. Nash, Joseph & Schonburg, John. Exciting adventure story of the Nile Exprdition to relieve General Gordon in Khartoum. Well illustrated with 10 Full-Page Plates and 4 Plans. In handsome Brown "Tree" Full-Leather Binding with 5 Raised Bands to spine. Title label missing from 2nd compartment but Lettering clearly impressed. Gilt Decoration fills other compartments & Bands. Gilt Decorative border on front & back with gilt School Badge on front. Endpapers and all-page-edges Marbled. Early Edition. Undated, Prize inscription on blank preliminary page dated 1908. 382 Pages, 850g, 7 5/8" Tall. Split to leather down right side of spine with a very narrow strip missing. Hinges sound. No inscriptions except the prize one mentioned. An occasional light spot of foxing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015698
- Title
- THE DASH FOR KHARTOUM : a Tale of the Nile Expedition. With Ten Page Illustrations By Joseph Nash and John Schonburg
- Author
- Henty, G. A
- Illustrator
- Nash, Joseph & Schonburg, John
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son Limited
- Place of Publication
- 50 Old Bailey, E C, London
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S FICTION/BOYS & MEN/MILITARY/WAR/ACTION ADVENTURE/GENERAL GORDON/GORDON OF KHARTOUM
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Spine
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...