RUSSIAN AFFAIRS
by Drage, Geoffrey
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London:John Murray, 1904. hard cover. Good/No jacket. London:John Murray. 1904. xvi+738pp+2pp ads. With 9 maps as called for. Hardcover. Red boards with gilt to front cover and spine strip lightly soiled and shelfworn, with wear along edges, both spine ends and edge points gently bumped. The spine strip is slightly sun-faded. Top pages edges gilt. Internally, end pages darkened from age-toning, with previous owners notes, in both pencil and ink, to both front and rear end-pages. There are penciled margin notes (mostly lines marking passages) throughout with an occasional bit of foxing scattered throughout. The binding is tight but front hinge is cracked at title page, with rear intact. A good solid copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26697
- Title
- RUSSIAN AFFAIRS
- Author
- Drage, Geoffrey
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London:John Murray
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- RUSSIA;
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
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