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The Five Nations
by Rudyard Kipling
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1903. 1st Edition . Very Good Minus. 6 x 9 inches (14.5 x 22.5 cm). Large paper edition, limited to 200 copies and printed on handmade paper. Quarter parchment with grey paper covered boards. Light marking to boards, light stain to front board. Spine has paper title label (with browning). Darkening and a few light marks to parchment. Top page edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Some scattered light foxing to text. Extra spine label tipped in before rear free endpaper. Engraved bookplate to front pastedown endpaper (Lady D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne). Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 6 x 9 inches (14.5 x 22.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xiii, 215
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- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1180E215
- Title
- The Five Nations
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen and Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
- Size
- 6 x 9 inches (14.5 x 22.5 cm)
- Keywords
- , Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
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- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- 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...
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