Eric Brighteyes
by H. Rider Haggard
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longmans, Green, and Co., 1916. Hardcover. Good. 1916. New Impression. 317 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Book has forward lean.
Synopsis
You have graciously conveyed to me the intelligence that during the weary weeks spent far from his home in alternate hope and fear, in suffering and mortal trial a Prince whose memory all men must reverence, the Emperor Frederick, found pleasure in the reading of my stories: that they interested and fascinated him.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1704900867ABS
- Title
- Eric Brighteyes
- Author
- H. Rider Haggard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Date Published
- 1916
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...