Jamaica.
by John Henderson, illustrated by A S Forrest:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906. First edition (hardback). 8vo, x, 179pp. 24 colour plates. Original decorated blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. Please note that this book is only in fair condition - the binding is rubbed and sunned, the text pages are foxed and the contents are thumbed. Nonetheless, this is one of the hardest A&C Black colour books to find. Part of the 6 shilling series of A&C Black colour books. Inman 277.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70862
- Title
- Jamaica.
- Author
- John Henderson, illustrated by A S Forrest:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906.
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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