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Journey to Java
by Nicolson, Harold
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1958. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1958. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Clean unfaded black cloth boards with rose red and silver lettering on cover and spine. Hint of surface wear to spine corners--no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages are clean and bright, with green top stained page edges. Clean bright endpapers (illustrated with maps). No names, writing or marks. 335 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, has shallow chipping at base of spine, very slight edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. For his seventieth birthday Sir Harold Nicolson was given a two months' cruise from London to Java, a gift from his friends. The result is this book--filled with pleasant shipboard hours, excursions at ports of call, and long converstaions about books, past and present, and the world of his time. 8vo. Adventure..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015213
- Title
- Journey to Java
- Author
- Nicolson, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- JAVA TRAVEL ADVENTURE HAROLD NICOLSON
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- First Edition
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- Price Clipped
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- Spine
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- Chipping
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- Good+
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- New
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
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- Cloth
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