On the Banks of the Amazon
by W. H. G. Kingston
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Thomas Nelson, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 411 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated cloth. Gilded page edges. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Prize plate to front free endpaper. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Moderate staining, foxing and tanning to pages, text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers; text unaffected. Moderate cracking to gutters exposing netting but pages remain attached. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, bubbling and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1671022881EMB
- Title
- On the Banks of the Amazon
- Author
- W. H. G. Kingston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson
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- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....