Palestine Notes And Other Papers
by Rowntree, John Wilhelm
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Headley Brothers. Fair with no dust jacket. 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Gutters split at hinges. Heavy rubbing to spine cloth and margins of boards. Internally good. ; xxiv, 276 pages + plates + frontis. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 224mm x 140mm. "[After some days illness in bed at Cairo, the journal begins.] Sunday. I rose from my couch, and determined to have done with care. The morning drive down the long avenue of acacias to the Pyramids was a pleasant change to counting flies on the ceiling." - the opening sentences. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9659
- Title
- Palestine Notes And Other Papers
- Author
- Rowntree, John Wilhelm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Headley Brothers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...