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British Military Prints
by Nevill, Ralph
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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South Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
London: The Connoisseur Publishing Company, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in original illustrated red-stamped boards with paste-down picture in cameo. No dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Top of spine is damaged and repaired. interior pages in Fine, unmarked and unblemished condition. Binding is tight but hinge is starting. Full-page color and black-and-white plates throughout. Includes a list of "military prints and books with plates of military interest," by W.G. Menzies and many pages of advertisements for furniture, silverware, and room paneling, in addition to prints and books. Laid in is a letter pertaining to one of the plates from A.L. Kipling, honorary editor of the book, writing from the Society for Army Historical Research. 4to.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Warwick Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95278
- Title
- British Military Prints
- Author
- Nevill, Ralph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Connoisseur Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- Military history; British military history; military costumes
Terms of Sale
Warwick Books
Returnable if not as described, with prior notice, within 30 days. We take care packaging the books you order and will gift wrap on request.
About the Seller
Warwick Books
Biblio member since 2004
South Pasadena, California
About Warwick Books
We are an Internet-only book business. We carry hard-to-find books in many categories including art, photography, military history, cookbooks, children's books, fiction, needlework, Americana, popular culture, and signed first editions. Warwick Books is a member of IOBA, the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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