GREENMANTLE
by Buchan, John
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. 345 pp. Green cloth covers with red title on front cover and spine. Cover corners and edges are bumped and rubbed, minor scuffing to cover faces, rubbing to joints, spine is creased, spine ends are bent and starting to fray. Soiled page edges. Cocked spine. Broken hinges. Interior pages and endpapers are tanned, quite heavily foxed. Book in Good- to Good condition.. Hard Cover. Good. Size: Approx. 5 " x 7 1/2". Fiction.
Synopsis
Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007448
- Title
- GREENMANTLE
- Author
- Buchan, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- Fiction, England
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 5 " x 7 1/2"
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About the Seller
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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