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"Camp Life in Abyssinia." In: THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. Vol. XVII (Jan.-June) 1868 (pp. 696-706.)
by HENTY, G. A.:
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1868.. Hardback, Tall 8vo. Approx 9 x 5.5 inches. Quarter bound in maroon morocco leather to spine and corners and marbled paper boards. Marbled endpapers, red speckled page edges. Raised banding, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. In very good condition. Some light rubbing to cover and boards with some minor fading to spine. Some handling marks. Cloth reinforced inner hinges to binding. No penned inscriptions. Some minor spots and handling marks to illustrations list. Else inside pages and plates all very clean and tight throughout. Rear endpaper has some minor darkening and chip to edge, small rubbed hole to margin of last couple of pages (just misses text.) Else a very good clean and tight copy. 760pp. Illustrated with 12 full-page B&W plates and with a similar illustrated chapter heading/letterpiece opposite each plate. This is a "dispatch sent from Antalo, Africa, March 10, 1868......Indiana has a copy of a letter corroborating the authenticity of this dispatch by Henty which was not signed." (Dart pp.42). OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS: Jack the Giant-Killer (chapt. 7 - 9), The Bramleighs of Bishop’s Folly (Chapt. 28 - 51), Avonhoe (chapt. 1 - 8). etc.;
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85018
- Title
- "Camp Life in Abyssinia." In: THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. Vol. XVII (Jan.-June) 1868 (pp. 696-706.)
- Author
- HENTY, G. A.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1868.
- Keywords
- G. A. HENTY Henty, Literature, cornhill magazine, camp life, Abyssinnia, Africa, jack, giant killer, military, leather, fine binding, illustrated, B&W plates
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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