The Wrong Box
by Stevenson Robert Louis
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pahiatua, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Longmans Green & Company Limited, 1889. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This copy re-bound for the New Zealand Assembly Library (Now Parliamentary Library with Ads removed. Brown cloth with the Assembly libraries gilt device to the front board and gilt titles and library device to spine. Boards are heavily rubbed with two pulls at the head of the spine. Corners and spine tips are rolled and rubbed. Assembly library plate to front paste-down, over stamped "withdrawn''. Ink number to the head of the title page. Card holder to rear paste-down. Prominent crack to 282-283 and has a heavy lean and is shaky. Four pages with contemporary ink stains, text readable. Light foxing throughout. Obviously a well used book. Could be re-bound to bring it back into reasonable shape.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Secret Bookshop
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016050
- Title
- The Wrong Box
- Author
- Stevenson Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans Green & Company Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- col fic
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- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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"...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
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- Device
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