Seven League Boots
by Halliburton, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/GD++/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1940* Publisher: Geoffrey Bles.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, black title to spine. No bumps, slight rubs to edges and lower corners, spine slightly faded & rubbed at tail. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Black and white maps and illustrations to end papers (both ends different). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only light reading wear, birthday dedication tipped in to half title and a coloured illustration to prelims. No marks to text, slight ageing to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: B/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 318 pp. text. ii pp. blank at rear.* Description: Commissioned to travel wherever he liked in the world, as long as the stories that he came up with were interesting and immediate, seemed to the author to be the world?s best occupation. So he set off to record a series of fascinating travels and histories that when collected together became one of the real romantic adventures of the early twentieth century.* This a NEAR VG copy with some ageing and cover wear reducing it to GD++. No dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4059
- Title
- Seven League Boots
- Author
- Halliburton, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/GD++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition, 1st. Imp..
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Bles
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 320
- Date Published
- 1941-01-01
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- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...