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From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches: Letters of Travel (two volumes)
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1918. Pocket Edition bound in red leather with gilt elephant head and swastika on front board, top edge of pages gilt. Methuen at bottom ends of spines, but publisher is Macmillan. Minor scuffing to spine ends and bumping to corners, but otherwise both good clean tight copies. A collection of pieces by Kipling on his journeys in India, Burma, China, Japan and the United States. Originally published in 1889 and in the Pocket Edition in 1908, this is a later reprint from 1918. 497pp (vol 1), 438pp (vol 2).. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- JimsOldBooks
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013095
- Title
- From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches: Letters of Travel (two volumes)
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1918
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Kipling-pocket-edition, Leather-Pocket-edition, Elephant-and-Swastika,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Literature;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
JimsOldBooks
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About the Seller
JimsOldBooks
Biblio member since 2004
Kirkwall, Orkney
About JimsOldBooks
Based in Kirkwall, Orkney off the north coast of Scotland. No shop, internet sales only..
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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