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Overdue - Or, The Strange Story of a Missing Ship
by Harry Collingwood
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, Glasgow & Bombay: Blackie and Son Limited, 1911 Book. Illus. by W H Holloway. Good. Green Decorated Boards. Presumed First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. One of many maritime adventure stories by the English author William Joseph Cosens Lancaster (1843-1922), written under the pseudonym Harry Collingwood. 287pp illustrated with black and white drawings. Edges tinted, top board and spine decorated with blue, green and gold drawings. Gilt lettering to top board and spine, grey endpapers. Some bumping to spine and corners, small stain to pastedown, some foxing to early pages and margins and prize certificate dated 1910 to endpaper, otherwise good copy. Publication date possibly 1910 rather than 1911 as presented on the title page..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015597
- Title
- Overdue - Or, The Strange Story of a Missing Ship
- Author
- Harry Collingwood
- Illustrator
- W H Holloway
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition.
- Publisher
- Blackie and Son Limited
- Place of Publication
- London, Glasgow & Bombay
- Date Published
- 1911
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Collectable Books;
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
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- 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....
- Gilt
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- 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...
- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Title Page
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