Biggles in Africa by Johns Capt W.E (William Earle)
- Bookseller: Caerwen Books
 (AU)
- Seller Inventory #: 001410
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Fair
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: Howard Leigh & Alfred Sindall
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford
- Place: England
- Date published: 1936
Description
England: Oxford, 1936 True 1st edition Original orange cloth lifted & placed on new boards, endpapers replaced unsympathetically to original edition status. Original cloth is damp damaged/stained and the design on the fabric is faded. Paper internally is soft near the spine with adjacent mildew markings. Small chips to the corners of the last few pages. Bookplate dated 2/4/1939 to original frontendpaper. Colour copy of the 1st edition jacket provided with the book. Very difficult to find as a true 1st edition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Howard Leigh & Alfred Sindall. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
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. Also known as the back.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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