Dragon Lizards of Komodo: An Expedition to the Lost World of the Dutch East Indies
by BURDEN, DOUGLAS W
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About This Item
G.P. Putnam's Sons 1927. Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, illus eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xii + 221pp, illus, scruffy (light chipping to spine extrems, heavy fading to spine, moderate bruising & scuffing to board corners, heavy staining to boards, front board moderately warped, moderate tanning to page edges, light water staining to edges of eps, light foxing to prelims, loose but present frontispiece, inscription in ink to verso of frontispiece, bookseller's label to front pastedown)
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- Title
- Dragon Lizards of Komodo: An Expedition to the Lost World of the Dutch East Indies
- Author
- BURDEN, DOUGLAS W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons 1927
- Keywords
- komodo dragon lizard Dutch East Indies illustrated
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...