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The Lost King
by Rafael Sabatini
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd, 1937. Very Good/Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd., 1937. First Edition with publisher's catalog dated "Autumn 1937"at rear. Octavo. 415 pp. +advertisements. Restored illustrated dust jacket (details below) with 8'6 net price to spine. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt.
Jacket restored with archival backing and color touch-up along edges, with evidence of prior chips along edges and spine and a long tear to rear; a bit of a textured quality to surface as a result of the backing. Boards bumped along edges, rubbing to base of spine, and long indentation to rear, tracing same arc as tear to dust jacket. Binding is sound. Touch of foxing to top of text block, but pages unmarked.
[Knight & Darley A.40.a].
Jacket restored with archival backing and color touch-up along edges, with evidence of prior chips along edges and spine and a long tear to rear; a bit of a textured quality to surface as a result of the backing. Boards bumped along edges, rubbing to base of spine, and long indentation to rear, tracing same arc as tear to dust jacket. Binding is sound. Touch of foxing to top of text block, but pages unmarked.
[Knight & Darley A.40.a].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13629
- Title
- The Lost King
- Author
- Rafael Sabatini
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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