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Under The Roof of the Jungle; A Book of Animal Life in the Guiana Wilds. With 59 full-page plates and many minor decorations from drawings from life By The Author
by Bull, Charles Livingston
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Boston: The Page Company, 1922. New Edition. Cloth. Near fine/very good. New edition of Under the Roof of the Jungle by Charles Livingston Bull, in the scarce dust jacket.. Octavo, xiv, 271pp. Green cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Color illustration of a jaguar and a bird stamped on front cover. Stated "New Edition, April, 1922" on copyright page. Illustrated endpapers. Solid text block, light rubbing to corners, dust remnants to top edge, a touch of rubbing to gilt on spine, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, foxing to panels, spine, and verso. A touch of chipping to spine, some shelf wear.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12788
- Title
- Under The Roof of the Jungle; A Book of Animal Life in the Guiana Wilds. With 59 full-page plates and many minor decorations from drawings from life By The Author
- Author
- Bull, Charles Livingston
- Illustrator
- New edition of Under the Roof of the Jungle by Charles Livingston Bull, in the scarce dust jacket.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- The Page Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- Charles Livingston Bull, Under the Roof of the Jungle Bull, Under the Roof of the Jungle New Edition, Guiana Wilds Bull, Guiana Wilds Charles Livingston Bull, Book of Animal Life
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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