General Gordon
by Rev S. A. Swaine
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- G+/N/a
- Seller
-
Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Cassell, 1888. Published in the "World's Workers" series. Blue covers with gilt lettering on spine and black lettering on front board, with red and black decoration and rules, 128pp plus adverts. Tissue-guarded frontis engraving of Gordon. Boards have modest wear and bumping at extrems and dusty, foxed page edges and prelims. Binding is strained in several places. Ref:093456. Eleventh Thousand. Cloth. G+/N/a. 12.5x19cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003456
- Title
- General Gordon
- Author
- Rev S. A. Swaine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G+
- Jacket Condition
- N/a
- Edition
- Eleventh Thousand
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1888
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...