London: Thomas Nelson Gilt title blocks with gilt sailing ship pictorial to spine and boy on horse pictorial to front on green cloth boards. Boards are clean with just a few minor marks to front and back and no wear. Internally there is a coloured decorative prize bookplate and light foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked. 317 pages with 5 coloured plates by various illustrators and coloured illustrated extra title page. Not dated but circa 1900's. First published in 1876. Uniform with the Kingston Library series. A children's adventure story featuring a sailing journey, mutinous threats, shipwreck, capture by Arabs and many escapes from danger. A1C. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Goldring Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004001
Title: Saved From The Sea
Author: Kingston, W.H.G
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Place of Publication: London
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Keywords: JUVENILIA, SAILING JOURNEY, MUTINY, SHIPWRECK, CAPTURE BY ARABS
Bookseller catalogs: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction;

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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....
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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...
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...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...