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Sport, Travel and Adventure in Newfoundland and the West Indies
by W.R. Kennedy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus. 5.75 x 8.25 inches (14.5 x 20.5 cm). Blue cloth binding with gilt illustration to front board. Darkening to spine. A little light marking to boards. Page edges untrimmed and unopened, with slight foxing. Good solid binding, clean text throughout. Colour frontis, one further plate and several illustrations within the text. Fold-out map at rear in excellent condition. A very nice example, rarely found in this condition. . Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 8.25 inches (14.5 x 20.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: x, 399
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1206T075
- Title
- Sport, Travel and Adventure in Newfoundland and the West Indies
- Author
- W.R. Kennedy
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1885
- Size
- 5.75 x 8.25 inches (14.5 x 20.5
- Keywords
- Canada, Newfoundland, Mi'kmaq People, West Indies, Haiti, Travel_Exploration/North_America
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel: Americas;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
Glossary
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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....
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