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A String of Chinese Peach-Stones
by Cornaby, W. Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Charles H. Kelly. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Gutters split at hinge.; xv, [1], 479, [3 (blank)] pages + colour frontispiece + 1 colour plate. Numerous in-text illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and Chinese characters on spine. No illustration to boards. Page dimensions: 216 x 147mm. The colour plate is "Charm Issued by the Taoist Pope", facing page 225. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22272
- Title
- A String of Chinese Peach-Stones
- Author
- Cornaby, W. Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles H. Kelly
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1895
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
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.
Glossary
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- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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