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Our Soldiers
by Kingston, W. H. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Henry Frowde. Fair with no dust jacket. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Ex-Libris bookplate on front free endpaper. Staining to boards. Hinges broken. Dampstains to frontispiece and title page. Marking and spotting to page edges. ; 368 pages. Colour frontis. Red cloth boards with gilt and colour illustrations. Page dimensions: 180mm x 120mm. Selected contents: The Afghan Campaigns, 1839-1842; The Conquest Of Scinde, 1843; The Gwalior Campaign, 1843; The Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858; The Abyssinian Expedition, 1867-1868; The Ashantee War, 1873-1874; The Zulu War, 1879; The Egyptian War, 1882; The Chitral Campaign, 1895; The Boer War Of Independence, 1881. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9626
- Title
- Our Soldiers
- Author
- Kingston, W. H. G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Frowde
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1910
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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