The Ivory Child
by H. Rider Haggard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Macdonald, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1958. 1st Edition Thus. 274 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing throughout. Heavier foxing to text-block edges. Minor tanning pastedowns and endpapers with pencil mark to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Visible sunning and foxing to spine with notable crushing to spine ends. Light sunning to boards edges. Gilt lettering is darkened. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Notable tanning to spine and panels edges. Tape staining allover dust jacket. Spine ends taped.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1703166672ABS
- Title
- The Ivory Child
- Author
- H. Rider Haggard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macdonald
- Date Published
- 1958
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...