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The Valley of Flowers
by Frank Sidney Smythe
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo, xiii + pp322 complete with colour frontispiece and 15 other colour plates in near fine condition with descriptive tissue guards and 2 b/w maps one of which folds out, both in excellent condition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Pictorial price clipped DJ in new protective sleeve in good condition with a little chipping to top of spine and top edge, and old tape mark to spine and a little foxing to front cover. Original green cloth binding with gilt titles to spine in very good condition. Inside previous gift inscription to front free end paper. All pages in very good condition with a little intermittent foxing throughout and to fore edge. A very nice copy that has a not unpleasant aroma of woodsmoke.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nikki Green Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000968
- Title
- The Valley of Flowers
- Author
- Frank Sidney Smythe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Travel / Topography
Terms of Sale
Nikki Green Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Nikki Green Books
Biblio member since 2021
Glasgow, Glasgow
About Nikki Green Books
Nikki Green Books is based in Glasgow. We are third generation bookdealers, beginning with Eve Lowell who started The Dartmoor Bookshop in Ashburton and Sue Lowell Natural History Books, our parent company, based in London. We specialise in natural history along with a wide range of subjects
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- Jacket
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- Price Clipped
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- New
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, 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...
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