Knocking About: Being Some Adventures of Augustus Baker Peirce in Australia
by Peirce, Augustus Baker / edited by Mrs. Albert T. Leatherbee
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New Haven and London: Yale University Press / Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924. Book. Illus. by Peirce, Albert Baker. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Thin Octavo. 176 pp, Introduction - Edward Howard Brigham, 12 untitled chapters - illustrated, no index. Binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, and well-preserved, cover cloth with light wear at the spine ends. 6.4" x 9.5" maroon cloth covered boards, gilt spine letters faded/rubbed.
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007853
- Title
- Knocking About: Being Some Adventures of Augustus Baker Peirce in Australia
- Author
- Peirce, Augustus Baker / edited by Mrs. Albert T. Leatherbee
- Illustrator
- Peirce, Albert Baker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Yale University Press / Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven and London
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- Augustus Baker Peirce - Curtis Seaman Read memorial Fund Publication - Early Australian naarrative
- Bookseller catalogs
- HISTORY;
- Size
- Thin Octavo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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