SAILING ON THE NILE
by Laporte, Laurent
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Glen Head, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston 1872 first edition. Roberts Bros. Translated from the French by Viginia Vaughan. Sm.8vo., 291pp., original hardcover -deep blue cloth with gilt lettering. near Good, inner hinges cracking but not yet cracked. Spine ends frayed. Text clean and binding secure. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Xerxesbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- a4681
- Title
- SAILING ON THE NILE
- Author
- Laporte, Laurent
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- egypt travel sailing nineteenth
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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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...