Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
by HENTY, G.A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: A.L. Burt Company, Publishers, n.y.. Hardcover. Illustrations by Gordon Browne. Small 8vo. Green cloth with silver spine lettering and ornate black and red lettering and pictorial stamping. 331pp. Frontispiece, 7 full-page line drawings. Very good. Spine slightly sunned and text block age toned as usual, else tight and internally near fine. Tight, quite sharp reprint edition of one of this prolific English scribbler's most popular historical adventures, first published in 1883 and this American ediition circa turn-of-the-century.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45220
- Title
- Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
- Author
- HENTY, G.A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A.L. Burt Company, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- n.y.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; British Literature;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....