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Gadget City: A Story of Ancient Alexandria
by I. O. Evans
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Gadget City: A Story of Ancient Alexandria by I. O. Evans.
Hardback, 1944, first edition, illustrated, published by Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd., London, 256 pages.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 3/8" by 5 1/4" by 1". Pictorial dust jacket, which is price-clipped, displays some marking, scuffing, a little staining at rear and a number of tears with a little chipping and some tape repairs to inside of jacket. Jacket is also stuck to book at rear board/pastedown. Orange cloth binding, black lettering and detail to front board and spine. A little marking and scuffing to binding, with some discolouration and staining but colouring mostly vivid. Signs of shelf-wear, rubbing at edges. Book has forward tilt. Flexible boards. A little slackness to binding but book contents quite firm. Page edges a little marked and slightly scuffed, upper edges mildly foxed but quite clean. A little tearing to a couple of lower page edges. A little foxing and staining to pastedowns and endpapers. Page surfaces generally clean, the odd mark but no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-200
- Title
- Gadget City: A Story of Ancient Alexandria
- Author
- I. O. Evans
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1944
- Pages
- 256
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Adventure, Fiction, Humour, Alexandria, Children's
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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