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The Sun Never Sets: Travels to the Remaining Outposts of the British Empire
by WINCHESTER, Simon
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Blue paper over boards, backed in blue cloth, in blue dust jacket; 316,[2]pp; black and white illus. Straight and clean, with light fading to extreme upper and lower edges of boards: Very Good or better. Jacket price-clipped, lightly rubbed, gently sunned at spine, with toning to upper edge, remnants of adhesive to front flap: Good or better.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58367
- Title
- The Sun Never Sets: Travels to the Remaining Outposts of the British Empire
- Author
- WINCHESTER, Simon
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Bookseller catalogs
- Great Britain;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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