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MAGIC LADAKH: AN INTIMATE PICTURE OF A LAND OF TOPSY-TURVY CUSTOMS & GREAT NATURAL BEAUTY
by Gompertz, M.L.A ("Ganpat")
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: Seeley, Service & Co, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 291 pages + 4 pages of advertisements. Good. Bound in contemporary grey cloth with black lettering to spine and gilt ornamentation to front board. Spine sunned; Original gold lettering to spine has been traced in black felt-tipped pen; Moderate fraying to edges and corners of binding; Boards marked; Corners bumped; Inscription to title page; Upper fore-edge corner of text block bumped; Several small closed tears to fore-edge margin of List of Illustrations; Text block age-toned; 15 pages of black and white illustrations and folding map. SH consignment. 1361808. Special Collections.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1361808
- Title
- MAGIC LADAKH: AN INTIMATE PICTURE OF A LAND OF TOPSY-TURVY CUSTOMS & GREAT NATURAL BEAUTY
- Author
- Gompertz, M.L.A ("Ganpat")
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Seeley, Service & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
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