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Jack Archer. A Tale of the Crimea
by Henty, G. A
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Hurst and Company. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 263, 8 pages. Hardcover bound in yellow, red, blue, and black illustrated cloth. The binding is rubbed and bumped. Spine is toned. Rubbing at headcap/foot. Gutter is cracked between the front flyleaf and the frontispiece. The text is toned, the edges of the pages are tender.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051669
- Title
- Jack Archer. A Tale of the Crimea
- Author
- Henty, G. A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hurst and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾\" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- G. A. Henty; Crimea; Children Books; Juvenile; Young adult fiction; Military; Crimea; Ukraine; History; Wars; Historic.
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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