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Black Sheep: Adventures in West Africa
by Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. First Edition. Near Fine/No Dustjacket. First Edition, first printing (1916 on title page, "Published May 1916" on copyright page). Very clean beige buckram cloth boards with brown stamped lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Frontis photograph of Ntum women and girls with clean tissue guard, illustrated with additional black & white photo plates. 314 pgs. 8vo. Africa..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016316
- Title
- Black Sheep: Adventures in West Africa
- Author
- Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston/New York
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE TRAVEL WEST AFRICA JEAN KENYON MACKENZIE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; Africa;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Title Page
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
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