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Westward Ho! The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, In The County of Devon, In The Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth
by Kingsley, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co.. 1890. Octavo Size [approx 13x19cm]. Very Good condition - square, clean and tight. School prize full leather binding. Gilt to spine and edges of boards. Red title patch to spine. Marbled endpapers and text block edges [quite attractive]. Black & White frontispiece with tissue guard. School prize plate to front free endpaper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 591 pages. Set in the Elizabethan era, and follows the adventures of Amyas Leigh who sets sail with Francis Drake and other privateers to the Caribbean, where they battle with the Spanish. . Reprint. Hardback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB324908
- Title
- Westward Ho! The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, In The County of Devon, In The Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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Adelaide Booksellers
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About Adelaide Booksellers
Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
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