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Journey To Java: A Journal Of Reflections
by Nicolson, Harold
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back First Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with an Acceptable Vintage Dust Jacket. Archival protective cover. Binding of full black cloth with flying fish imprinted in silver on front, red and silver titles on spine and front. Clean and unmarked, tight and solid. Light edgewear to corners and spine head and heel. Top edge tinted green. Rough cut. Endpapers green and white map illustrations showing journeys of Sir Harold Nicolson and his wife, Vita Sackville-West, author. Inner hinge partially cracked. Interior clean, unmarked, no tears, no creases or dog-eared pages. Jacket ragged on edges and around spine. Tear to spine heel. A unique record of the journey of Sir Harold and his wife from London to Java --a gift from friends for Sir Harold's 70th birthday. "--a thoroughly civilized philosophic voyage of which it is difficult to say whether the journey or the philosophy is more engaging". -Howard Mumford Jones. 335 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 1958, Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York, USA
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016461
- Title
- Journey To Java: A Journal Of Reflections
- Author
- Nicolson, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- THE FAR EAST; TRAVEL; ADVENTURE; VITA SACKVILLE-WEST;SEA SUMATRA; CEYLON;
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About the Seller
The Parnassus BookShop
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Acceptable
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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"...
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