A History of the Great War
by BUCHAN, JOHN
- Used
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. Autograph Edition. Three Quarters Leather. Near Fine. 8vo. Eight (8) volumes in three quarter gilt lettered maroon leather over pinkish cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers with silk ribbon marker. This edition signed by the author and limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is #61. Maps and illustrations. Colour frontis in each volume. Some rubbing to edges and some slight darkening to paper o/w a near fine set.
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- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40876
- Title
- A History of the Great War
- Author
- BUCHAN, JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Three Quarters Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Autograph Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1922
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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- 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...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...