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Deville McKeene: The Exploits of the Mystery Airman
by Rowland Walker
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Deville McKeene: The Exploits of the Mystery Airman by Rowland Walker.
Hardback, undated but circa 1920 (prizegiving bookplate from 1930 to front free endpaper), early edition and possible first edition, illustrated, published by Partridge, London, 248 pages.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 1/2" by 5 1/4" by 1 1/2". No dust jacket. Red cloth binding, black lettering and pictorial detail to front board and spine. Marking, scuffing and some discolouration to binding and a little puckering to cloth on front board. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges and on hinges, small tears to head and tail of spine, slightly bumped and torn corners. Some slackness to binding, crack to front inner hinge with netting exposed and some strain throughout. Page edges browned, scuffed, marked and a little foxed. A little marking, foxing to endpapers, prizegiving bookplate to front free endpaper. A little foxing and some thumb marking to page surfaces throughout but no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-125
- Title
- Deville McKeene: The Exploits of the Mystery Airman
- Author
- Rowland Walker
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Patridge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- Circa 1920s
- Pages
- 248
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction; Children's; Adventure
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
Glossary
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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