UNDER THE DEODARS, THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW, WEE WILLIE WINKIE
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York and London: MacMillan and Company, 1895. 344+pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine, and gilt decoration at top edge of front cover. Binding lightly rubbed; spine sunned. Covers slightly cocked. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; bookseller's small label on rear paste-down. Faint dampstain at top margin of leaves, not affecting any text. Short tears at top margins of leaves 4 through 8, not affecting text. Light foxing throughout.. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23482LIT
- Title
- UNDER THE DEODARS, THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW, WEE WILLIE WINKIE
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1895
- Keywords
- LITERATURE FICTION GENERAL ENGLISH SHORT STORIES 19TH NINETEENTH CENTURY 20TH TWENTIETH CENTURY ADVENTURE ADVENTURERS VOYAGES AND TRAVELS WORLD HISTORY INDIA ASIA LITERARY WORKS AUTHORS KIPLING JOSEPH RUDYARD 1865 1936
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
Biblio member since 2007
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...