Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Field on endpaper. Green cloth over boards. Light wear on edges, corners bumped. Gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Brown endpaper. Fold-out map frontis. Clean throughout.

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Bookseller: Bearly Read Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 052250
Title: On The Desert: With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt
Author: Field, Henry M
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: 1883
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Inscribed: When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
Top Edge Gilt: Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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...