LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA
by CHURCHILL, WINSTON S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Wear and Soiling/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green and Company, 1900. Spine just a bit faded. Front cover vignette and red lettering are bright. Small brown spot rear cover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, dated 20/6/00. Three folding maps, one in color, five maps and plans in text. Thirty-two page catalogue dated 10/99 at rear. The work is Churchill's account of the early months of the Second Boer War. Ladysmith is a city in South Africa. 498pp.. First English Edition. Fawn Pictorial Cloth. Light Wear and Soiling/No Dust Jacket. Crown Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015589
- Title
- LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA
- Author
- CHURCHILL, WINSTON S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Wear and Soiling
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Company
- Place of Publication
- London, New York, Bombay
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- Crown Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Churchill, Boer War, English History
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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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....
- 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"...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...