STARS OF THE DESERT
by Laurence Hope:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Heinemann London 1911 G (no dj, sage green paper-covered boards with brown cloth backstrip and tanned tipped-on title plate on spine, bottom corners bumped and heavily rubbed, front hinge weak but textblock binding remaining firm, browning/speckling prelims and endpapers, ink gift inscription front free endpaper, pages clean, browning to outside edges of uneven and roughcut pages) octavo 152pp. Reprint.
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- Bookseller
- lobstabooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40915
- Title
- STARS OF THE DESERT
- Author
- Laurence Hope:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann London 1911
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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About the Seller
lobstabooks
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theberton suffolk
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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.,...
- 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....
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...