On The Desert: With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt
by Field, Henry M
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Field on endpaper. Green cloth over boards. Light wear on edges, corners bumped. Gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Brown endpaper. Fold-out map frontis. Clean throughout.
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- Bookseller
- Bearly Read Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 052250
- Title
- On The Desert: With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt
- Author
- Field, Henry M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1883
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Spine
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- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
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- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...