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Through the Magic Door
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George Bell & Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine faded. 1/4" tear to cloth at head of spine. Some bruising to corners of boards. 1/2" knock and 1/8" chip to cloth at tail corner of front board. Underlining and marginalia in coloured pencil. Front free endpaper missing.; Colonial edition, "Bell's Indian and Colonial Library". vi, 274 pages + frontis + 15 plates + 16 pages advertisement. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and blind-stamped title on front board. Dimensions: 7 5/8" by 4 7/8". An edition of 2500 copies. [Reference: Green B7c] ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4511
- Title
- Through the Magic Door
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George Bell & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1907
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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