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Oriental Cairo: The City of the "Arabian NIghts"
by Sladen, Douglas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Mansfield Center, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
J. B. Lippincott. 1911. Good+ with no dust jacket; Hardcover; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Philadelphia; 391 pages, bound in blue cloth; gilt lettering and rules; top edge gilt. 63 plates of black & white photographs, including frontis illustration. Folding map of Cairo (Le Caire, Masr el-Kahira) (originally engraved and printed by Wagner & Debes, Leipzig). at back of book (now detached from binding). 1911 title page date, edition unknown. Binding solid. Blue cloth cover faded, lightly scuffed, and discolored, relatively clean. Gilt lettering bright and intact. Top edge gilt moderately rubbed. Flypages moderately foxed. Light scattered foxing appears on some interior pages. Illustrations are bright, clean and free of foxing. Previous owner's gift notation written on front endpaper. Otherwise unmarked. Map of Cairo is crisp, clean, intact. A Good book, interesting photos and map of the period; jacket absent. .
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- Bookseller
- Mount Hope Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 798
- Title
- Oriental Cairo: The City of the "Arabian NIghts"
- Author
- Sladen, Douglas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott
- Date Published
- 1911
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1911 map of Cairo Egypt, Cairo Egypt
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- Music;
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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...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
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