The Golden Cloak: An Informal History of Hawaiian Royalty...
by Withington, Antoinette
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Item Price
NZ$103.20NZ$82.56
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About This Item
Hawaiiana Press , 1953. 312 pp. 24 x 16 cm. Burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt titling to spine, in an unclipped dustjacket. Considerable rubbing to jacket; chipping to head and tail of spine of jacket; closed tears to all panels of jacket. Rubbing to front board; wear to tail of boards; bumping to head and tail of spine. Honolulu Book Shop label to tail of front pastedown; mild foxing to first blank page; inscribed, signed, and dated by author in blue ink on first blank page. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding firm.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Munster & Company, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 625383
- Title
- The Golden Cloak: An Informal History of Hawaiian Royalty...
- Author
- Withington, Antoinette
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Hawaiiana Press
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Munster & Company, LLC
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
Munster & Company, LLC
Biblio member since 2018
Corvallis, Oregon
About Munster & Company, LLC
Munster & Company is a family owned business with over twenty years of experience in buying and selling books. In October of 2017, we purchased Black Oak Books, originally in Berkeley, California, and moved it all to where we live in Corvallis, Oregon. Our inventory currently features a robust number of titles on mathematics, books about books, literature, poetry, and signed books. New arrivals are listed nearly every day.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.