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THE YOUNG YÄGERS, OR A NARRATIVE OF HUNTING ADVNETURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
by REID, CAPTAIN MAYNE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Corner and Spine Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857. Spine lettered and vignette in gilt. Spine extremities are frayed with about 3/4" loss of cloth a foot. A bit squint. Frontispiece illustration and several more through the text. Occasional foxing, never heavy. Author's edition. 328pp.. First Edition. Red Embossed Cloth. Corner and Spine Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013905
- Title
- THE YOUNG YÄGERS, OR A NARRATIVE OF HUNTING ADVNETURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
- Author
- REID, CAPTAIN MAYNE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Corner and Spine Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1857
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Children's Stories, Adventure, Hunting, South Africa
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
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