Swallow. A Tale of the Great Trek.
by Haggard (Sir Henry Rider)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London, etc.: Longmans, Green, 1899. First British edition.. Dark blue cloth, beveled edges, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Black end papers. Frontispiece & 7 illustrations by Greiffenhagen. Some wear to lower tips, corner torn from page 20/21 (not affecting text), some pencil marks on preliminary leaf; in general, a bright very good copy. The first British edition, published about a month after the American edition. McKay 26a.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56110
- Title
- Swallow. A Tale of the Great Trek.
- Author
- Haggard (Sir Henry Rider)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, etc.: Longmans, Green, 1899. First British edition.
- Bookseller catalogs
- SFcat;
Terms of Sale
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...