Second Diary of the Great Warr
by Pepys, Samuel Jnr
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
Item Price
€23.41€16.39
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: John Lane at the Bodley Head , 1917. Further titled. Sometime of Magdalene College in Cambridge and of His Majesty's Navy Office, Esquire MA. With effigies by John Kettelwell newly engraven at large upon copper...A humorous account of the Great War from the Jan 1916 to June 1917 written in the style of Pepys. CONDITION Brown bds with Tan buckram spine (light shelf wear, bottom rear cnr bumped) 304 pages with 16 humorous b/w illus plates, pages are untrimmed, copy is bright and crisp with light foxed end pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariel Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13708
- Title
- Second Diary of the Great Warr
- Author
- Pepys, Samuel Jnr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Lane at the Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1917
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour;
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About the Seller
Ariel Books
Biblio member since 2003
Auckland
About Ariel Books
We are a small friendly book store stocking a unique selection of rare and out of print books. Currently we are searching for a suitable new location but have had an open book shop since 1998.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- BDS
- Common term for the covers of a hardbound book. The term 'boards' refers to the thick cardboard under the paper or cloth...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...