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ITALIAN HIGHWAYS
by King, E. Augusta
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1896. Book. Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xii, 435pp; b/w frontis. with tissue, 1 sketch in text.. Bound in apparently original pebbled blue cloth with gilt title to spine but no decoration, author of publisher. This may have been a library binding, but the book bears no library marks of any kind. The coners of the covers are bumped, and there is very minor wear to the corners, but this is otherwise a very nice copy..
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Details
- Bookseller
- R. Hart Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 173864
- Title
- ITALIAN HIGHWAYS
- Author
- King, E. Augusta
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley and Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1896
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- TRAVEL ITALY HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Voyage, Travel & Exploration;
Terms of Sale
R. Hart Books
Books will be reserved for a maximum of 5 days; returns may be made within 10 days by prior arrangement, pre-paid, if not as described.
About the Seller
R. Hart Books
Biblio member since 2004
Ottawa, Ontario
About R. Hart Books
R Hart Books offers quality used and collectible books via the Internet, with an emphasis on Military History.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Library Binding
- A type of reinforced binding designed for libraries, schools, or other applications where a book might experience high...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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