The Durbar
by MENPES, MORTIMER & MENPES, DOROTHY
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Adam & Charles Black 1903. FIRST EDITION, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xii + 210pp, illus/colour plates- not counted, VG- (heavy chipping & bruising to spine extrems, 3cm crack to top extrem of spine, light scuffing to corners, light chafing & discolouration to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, moderate cracking to gutters, some plates detached, moderate foxing to pages sporadically throughout)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Durbar
- Author
- MENPES, MORTIMER & MENPES, DOROTHY
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Adam & Charles Black 1903
- Keywords
- India exploration travel illustrated first edition Durbar Mortimer Menpes
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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...