Longmans, Green & Co 1900. UK FIRST EDITION- SECOND STATE (NO DATE TO REVERSE OF TITLE PAGE), octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, ix + 345pp, VG (spine cocked, minor scuffing & bruising to extrems, light soiling & moderate chafing/surface loss to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate cracking to front & rear gutters)

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

Details

Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 317736
Title: Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania
Author: CHURCHILL, WINSTON SPENCER
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co 1900
Keywords: modern first UK editions second state novels fiction literature Winston Churchill fictional works

Terms of Sale

Hard To Find Books

Fast and professional shipping. All stock is returnable within seven days of receipt if it does not match description.

About the Seller

Hard To Find Books

This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

Biblio member since 2004

DUNEDIN, Auckland

Ask Seller a Question

About Hard To Find Books

New Zealand's largest Bookdealer.We stock:History, First Editions, Military,Science, Law, Car manuals, Antiquarian, Genealogy, New Zealand, Travel, Art, Politics, Royalty, Aviation, Science, Technology, Humanities, Sport, Nautical,Poetry, Literature etc

Glossary
Frequently asked questions

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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...
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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...
Second State: used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
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....
Buckram: A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...