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Sunshine and Storm in the East or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople
by Mrs Annie Brassey
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longmans, Green, and Co., 1880. Hardcover. Good. 1880. First Edition. 443 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt decorations. Insert signed by Lord Brassey, husband of the author to front free endpaper. Colour pull-out maps to endpapers. Black and white illustrations and plates throughout. Mild cracking to gutters on occasion. Binding remains firm with all pages attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Slightly more pronounced towards the start and end of the book. Illustrations are bright and clear, with some light tanning and foxing to edges. Faint pencil marks to front free endpaper. Some uncut pages towards the start and end of the book. Boards have mild shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Mild sunning to spine. Faint mark to top of rear board. Gilt lettering and decorations remain bright and clear.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1705339701BLG
- Title
- Sunshine and Storm in the East or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople
- Author
- Mrs Annie Brassey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Date Published
- 1880
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Uncut Pages
- 'Uncut pages', or simply 'uncut', traditionally refers to a book which has not been trimmed by rebinding. Prior to the...
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