Two Mountains and a River
by TILMAN, H. W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Cambridge University Press 1949. FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 233pp, illus/photos, folding map, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light foxing & discolouration to spine, light tanning, foxing & soiling to page edges & prelims, gift plate & prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep, sl cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping with some loss to edges, moderate scuffing & soiling, light fading to spine)
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- Title
- Two Mountains and a River
- Author
- TILMAN, H. W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press 1949
- Keywords
- first editions travel literature exploration Himalayas
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- 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....
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- First Edition
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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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...