The Virgin of the Sun : A Tale of the Conquest of Peru
by Griffith, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: George Bell and Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. 1898. Hardcover. Fading and staining to spine. Some fraying to cloth at ends of spine. 10mm loss of cloth at corners of front board. Dust stains to boards and page edges. Gutters split at hinges. Front free endpaper torn out. Foxing. ; Colonial edition. "Bell's Indian and Colonial Library". xi, [1], 306, [1], [1 (blank)] pages + 16 pages advertisements. Red cloth boats with gilt lettering on spine. Blind-stamped lettering on front board. Page dimensions: 189 x 120mm. An historical novel. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24661
- Title
- The Virgin of the Sun : A Tale of the Conquest of Peru
- Author
- Griffith, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- George Bell and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
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.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...