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The Opium Clippers
by Basil Lubbock
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/good
- Seller
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Jelutong, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
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About This Item
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1953. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/good. A book dedicated to the ships that plied between India and China carrying opium which was the backbone of the finances of British India and the ruin of China. The book not only contains accounts of various journeys, but also technical information about the ships themselves. Good Hardback in a Good Dust Jacket. Reprint. Originally published in 1933. 392 with many illustrations, maps and an index. Weight: 1.3 kg Post free within Malaysia, but may incur additional charges when posted elsewhere. This is an ex-library book with labels on the spine and a front end paper and a stamp on the publisher's page . The dust jacket, now protected by a plastic sleeve, is stained in places. The edges of the cover are rubbed and the text block tanned. The binding is tight, text clear and there is mild tanning throughout. There is a former owner's smart personal name plate on a front end paper
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Details
- Seller
- The Penang Bookshelf
(MY)
- Seller's Inventory #
- AS692
- Title
- The Opium Clippers
- Author
- Basil Lubbock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Brown, Son & Ferguson
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1953
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About the Seller
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Jelutong, Pulau Pinang
About The Penang Bookshelf
The Penang Bookshelf was set up in mid 2010 principally to introduce Malaysian residents to the variety of books there is available about the country both past and present. We only stock fiction and non-fiction related to Malaysia and the rest of Asia. Much of our current stock of over a thousand different titles is not available in Malaysia. Conversely much of our stock published in Malaysia is difficult to find outside the country. So if there\'s something Malaysia related that you\'re looking for, do please contact us and we\'ll do our best to help. At present details of most of our stock is not on line; we hope it will be eventually!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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