Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1917. Hardcover. Fair. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and design, 12mo, top edge gilt. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards rubbed, page edges tanned, small bottom edge stain, discoloration to endpapers, first blank after ep and halftitle torn, detached and laid in.
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- Bookseller
- ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8873
- Title
- Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1917
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About the Seller
ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
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Portland, Oregon
About ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...