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The Creature in the Map
by Nicholl, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224033336
- ISBN 13
- 9780224033336
- Seller
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About This Item
London, UK: Jonathan Cape, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 396pp. Black cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine; some black and white photographs; illustrative endpapers. 8vo. Bump to bottom of rear board. Text block edges starting to tan and just starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear and chipping to edges, not price clipped. The author traces the footsteps of Sir Walter Raleigh's Elizabethan expedition to South America to search for the lost golden city of El Dorado.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015218
- Title
- The Creature in the Map
- Author
- Nicholl, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224033336
- ISBN 13
- 9780224033336
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- X weight
- 0 kg
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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