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Being a Record of Sundry Expeditions, New and Old, in Search of Buried Treasure.
With eight illustrations by Alfred Palmer, R.O.I and eight maps by H.E. Winder,
Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1930, 1st Edition, xiii+242 pages,
Brown leatherette, gold lettering,
Previous owner's signature inside front and back cover,
Some foxing on end paper, minor shelf wear on spine, nice, tight binding, clean inside,
Very good overall condition.
Please note: some of the page edges were not cut very well, leaving some untidy edges.
Some background information on this:
Books are printed on large sheets of paper, about the size of newsprint. Several pages are printed on each sheet. In fact, there is a specific number of pages per sheet, depending on the size of the book.
Each group of sheets folded like that is a signature and the book was assembled by stacking all the signatures in order, sewing them together, gluing on a back cloth and attaching it to the end papers, which were attached to the front and back covers. But before the covers were attached, the page edges were trimmed. If the original sheet folding wasn’t too accurate, the trimming might miss a folded edge or two and when you came to that page, you found two pages joined together at both front and back. The solution is to take your penknife (which every gentleman carries) and slit the pages so you can continue reading. (Sometimes books were deliberately uncut, leaving to the reader the task of cutting all the pages. There was a time when cutting pages was considered a great pleasure.)
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The exploits of African treasure-hunters. Seven lost treasures:
Please judge from pictures:
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