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THE RIVER WAR, AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE RECONQUEST OF THE SOUDAN
by CHURCHILL, WINSTON S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jackets
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green and Company, 1899. TWO VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND..A run of 2000 copies was printed on 6 November 1899. Front cover and spine vignettes, lettering in gilt. Original black endpapers. Front hinge starting in Volume 1. Gift inscription on front preliminary in both volumes dated 1899. Covers show light wear, lettering and vignettes remain bright. Bottom corner of Volume 2 is bumped. Collated complete with twenty folding maps, all in very nice condition. Text illustrations and full-page maps throughout the text. This set has a 32-page catalogue at the end of Volume 1. 462-491pp. Woods A2(a).. First Edition. Dark Blue Cloth. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jackets. Demi Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015623
- Title
- THE RIVER WAR, AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE RECONQUEST OF THE SOUDAN
- Author
- CHURCHILL, WINSTON S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jackets
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Company
- Place of Publication
- London, New York, Bombay
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- Demi Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Churchill, Sudan, Military History
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
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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- First Edition
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- New
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- Cloth
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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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
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