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The Scalp-Hunters; or, Romantic Adventures in Northern Mexico
by Reid, Mayne (Captain)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Simms and M'Intyre. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1852. Hardcover. 1" split to leather at head of front joint. Some rubbing to edge of boards. Dust stains to page edges.; (iii)-vi, (7)-384, [1 (blank)], [1 (advertisement)] pages. Lacking half-title (which probably had the series title "The Parlour Library"). Contemporary half-leather and marbled boards. Page dimensions: 162 x 99mm. Provenance: Contemporary bookseller's blindstamp on front free endpaper of "A Lewthwaite Bookseller and Stationer 44 North Quay, Douglas". 19th Century owner's signature "R B Willis".; 12mo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6335
- Title
- The Scalp-Hunters; or, Romantic Adventures in Northern Mexico
- Author
- Reid, Mayne (Captain)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Simms and M'Intyre
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1852
- Keywords
- Fiction Nineteenth Century
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:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blindstamp
- A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...