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Contents in very good condition: Interior pages clean and sound, not shaken. Newspaper clipping "James Lick's Estate" glued to verso of title page, leaving light offsetting on the page V "Introduction." Green cloth covers good. Bevelled corners bumped and worn thru to boards. Head cap and tail cap are worn. One small triangular piece (1/4 inch by 1/2 inch) worn from bottom of front cover with board showing. Front hinge (coated brown paper) repaired. Rear hinge OK but loose.

Published in 1857, this copy is in a deluxe binding of three-quarter brown leather with marbled boards and page edges, as well as marbled endpapers. The cover's spine has five raised bands with gilt panels, and the gilt title is on black leather. Other deluxe features -- two hand-colored plates of birds. Pages are clean. PROBLEMS: Folding map is missing; last page of table of contents is missing; leather worn at edges and corners; marbled paper on cover is scuffed and worn; and edges of covers are worn to the boards. 630 pages. 150 engravings.

Rev. Henry Clapham Foster was the chaplain to the Second Royal Naval Brigade under Commodore Oliver Backhouse. This is a memoir of his time serving in World War I in Belgium, Turkey, and Gallipoli.
Some pages are unevenly cut, some foxing on pages edges, cover in good condition with slightly bumped corners. Former owner's 1918 signature on front flyleaf.

Gilt on cover and spine is legible and bright. Corners, head and tail of spine are slightly worn. Interior pages well bround and tight. No writing, no foxing. All 527 pages almost never read. Overall, very good condition. NOT an ex-library book.