By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
by Henty, G. A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Blackie & Son, Limited, Glasgow and Dublin, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Gordon Browne. list of illustrations. Gray coloured endpapers. Eight illustrations by Gordon Browne within the text, the frontispiece is not present and appears not to have been a part of this publication. Green/gilt coloured tint to all edges of the text block. Illustrated cover, showing a young man with a gun and a game bag on his shoulder ( showing a dead bird in his bag ) standing amongst some grass, rendered in gilt. He has a background of red coloured cloth. There is another illustration which shows a jungle lagoon with a crocodile's head on the water against a background of darker green and red colouration and there is a touch of gilt in some of the grasses as well, lower right-hand corner of the front panel. On the back strip there is a gilt insert which has some gilt floral decoration but the writing has been rendered in red. A smaller gilt insert with the author's name. The illustration to the lower back strip edge again shows a crocodile's head. Gilt writing to the front cover. Heavy rubbing and bumping and fraying to the book corners, underlying board is visible to all book corners. Bumping, rubbing and small tears to both the top and bottom back strip edge. Heavy shelf wear to the lower book edge. There is fading of the book cloth to the lower left-hand corner of the front panel. The book cloth is heavily rubbed and marked and a lot of the gilt has been worn away from both the front cover at and back strip region. The rear book cover is quite marked and stained. There is a loose illustration between pages 196 and 197. The spine has split between pages 240 and 41 and the webbing can be seen between the pages. The spine is quite cocked. Browning of the endpapers and original bookseller's sticker to the lower left-hand corner of the rear paste down. Rubbing of the colour from the text block edge. Gift inscription to the verso of the free front in paper [ dated 1905 ]. Light foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book. Only slight tanning of the internal pages and a few handling marks. Within the section at the back of the book there are numerous small black-and-white illustrations taken from the books spoken about. A book of derring-do and bravery set during one of the numerous wars in Africa in the late 1800s. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). X, 352 pages, at the rear of the text another 32 pages of publications of " Blackie & Son's books for Young People",. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Gordon Browne. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Fiction -- Vintage; Fiction -- Military; fiction -- adolescent; Inventory No: 0105470. .
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0105470
- Title
- By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
- Author
- Henty, G. A
- Illustrator
- Gordon Browne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son, Limited
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow and Dublin
- Date Published
- No date
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Adolescent Fiction, Early 20th Century, Gordon Browne -- Illustrator, Illustrated Binding Children; Fiction -- Vintage; Fiction -- Military; fiction -- adolescent; Gordon Browne Unbranded Henty, G. A. By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction -- Adolescent; Fiction -- Vintage; Fiction -- Military;
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
Glossary
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.