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Five Weeks in a Balloon
by Verne, Jules [William Lackland translator]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Warsaw, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Appleton, 1869 Bound in green cloth with gilt decorations, 345 pp. plus 12 pp ads. Last two pages listing new Appleton publications with 8 titles. This copy with yellow endpapers, and 6 illustraitons. Spine extremities and tips with modest wear, 3/4" split at front gutter, tissue guard with tear at joint, light foxing from endpaper through title page and rear endpaper with four small spots. One sig slightly proud. Otherwise contents fine. Old clipping for this title from an old bookseller's catalog laid in [$25.00]
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003261
- Title
- Five Weeks in a Balloon
- Author
- Verne, Jules [William Lackland translator]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American
- Publisher
- Appleton
- Date Published
- 1869
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Books returnable if not as described and returned in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Biblio member since 2006
Warsaw, Indiana
About Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Primarily online seller with emphasis on better quality books.In the book business since the mid 1980s.
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- Cloth
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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