The Magic City
by Nesbit, E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Ernest Benn. Good with no dust jacket. 1930. First Thus. Hardcover. No date (copyright 1930) . Xiv, 333 pages including frontis + 26 in-text illustrations. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Blind-stamped illustration and titles on front board. No signatures. 1/4" tears and <1/4" chips to cloth at head and tail of spine. Spine rubbed and very faded. Edges of spine and boards rubbed. 1" tear 3/4" chip and brown stain to one leaf (pp.159-160) . Brown stain affecting several adjacent leaves. Some spotting to page edges. Endpapers clean. Gutters intact. ; 12mo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003249
- Title
- The Magic City
- Author
- Nesbit, E
- Illustrator
- Millar, H. R.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Ernest Benn
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- 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...
- Leaves
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...