Botany Bay
by Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Coral, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little Brown, 1941 First Edition. "Published November 1941" on copyright page. Very good copy about the 18th Century Australian penal colony of England. 8vo. Sharp looking light blue cloth stamped in silver. Top page edges stained silver. Pictorial endpapers. Spine a little darker. Pictorial dust jacket by Andrew Wyeth. Clean. Tight. Jacket has a 1" and 3" piece at top and bottom of spine missing, otherwise in very good condition. $2.50 dust jacket price. Very good/ Fair..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cultural Connection (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12171
- Title
- Botany Bay
- Author
- Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- Romantic Historical Novel
- Bookseller catalogs
- General #1;
Terms of Sale
Cultural Connection
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About the Seller
Cultural Connection
Biblio member since 2016
Cape Coral, Florida
About Cultural Connection
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Glossary
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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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...