The Wrecker
by Stevenson, Robert Louis & Osbourne, Lloyd
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cassell, 1892. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Wm. Hole & W. L. Metcalf. Presentable, clean, tight and sound copy. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Light foxing to page edges, heavier around endpapers. Extremities rubbed and bumped. [ 6 ] + 427 pages, 12 page publisher's catalogue dated May 1892 at rear, 12 b/w illustrations. Approx. size 8" by 5.5". Illustrator: Wm. Hole & W. L. Metcalf. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 28124. .
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- Bookseller
- Steve Liddle
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28124
- Title
- The Wrecker
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis & Osbourne, Lloyd
- Illustrator
- Wm. Hole & W. L. Metcalf
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- BZDB28 scottish shipwreck salvage south seas Fiction; The Wrecker Stevenson Robert Louis Osbourne Lloyd
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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Steve Liddle
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About the Seller
Steve Liddle
Biblio member since 2009
Bristol, Avon
About Steve Liddle
Full time bookseller since 1982. Bookshops in Bristol and Bath ( as Patterson & Liddle )1982- 2006. Member ABA ILAB PBFA. Regular exhibitor at major UK bookfairs.
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- Gilt
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- Tight
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
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