The Fifth Continent with the Adjacent Islands
by Eden, Charles H
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
S. P. C. K.. Fair. 1877. Hardcover. A 1877 hardcover without dustwrapper (if issued) in aged somewhat rubbed and lightly soiled decorative green cloth covered boards with bright gilt blocked lettering very bumped/rubbed to the corners, the backstrip with gilt blocked lettering is very bumped/rubbed to the ends, previous owner's plate removed from the inner pastedown and the map is sadly missing from front board pocket, very clean slightly tanned unmarked pages with webbing showing between pages 145 and 146, tanned to the text-block edges. A tight useful original copy. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16088
- Title
- The Fifth Continent with the Adjacent Islands
- Author
- Eden, Charles H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- S. P. C. K.
- Date Published
- 1877
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
The Old Bookshelf
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About the Seller
The Old Bookshelf
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute
About The Old Bookshelf
Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.