A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook
by A. Kippis
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bickers & Son, 1878. Hardcover. Good. 1878. No Edition Remarks. 404 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white plates throughout. Black and white frontispiece. Gilt edges to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Dedication to front free endpaper. Some scribbling in pencil on two pages at front. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned. Spine heavily worn and deteriorating. Gilt lettering dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces. Book has slight forward lean.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1696597252ALK
- Title
- A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook
- Author
- A. Kippis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bickers & Son
- Date Published
- 1878
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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...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...