The Ostrich for the Defence
by Hile, William H
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: George H. Ellis Co., 1912. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Boston: George H. Ellis Co., 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/No Dust jacket. First Edition. Decorated American trade binding (signed binding - Adrian Iorio). Clean red cloth boards with black and white ostrich on cover, gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Frontispiece illustration (black and white photograph of man on camel and three men holding an ostrich). Preface by the author. 324 pages with appendix. A lost race Utopian adventure novel set in the Middle East and Africa. Scarce..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021972
- Title
- The Ostrich for the Defence
- Author
- Hile, William H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- George H. Ellis Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- NOVEL, FICTION, ADVENTURE, UTOPIAN SOCIETIES, WILLIAM H. HILE, FIRST EDITION, DECORATED AMERICAN TRADE BINDING, DATB
- Bookseller catalogs
- Decorated American Trade Binding;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.